Making time

Very often, I feel that time passes by like a bullet train. Do you feel the same? Week after week, I go through similar routines and by the end of it, another week has passed and here I go again, going through the same routines as the week before.

Then, before I realize it, minutes, hours, days, weeks pass and hey, it is another year again! Where did the time go, what did I do, what have I achieve? This is especially a challenge if at work, we are required to document our achievements for the year as part of the job's key performance index (KPI). It was always a dreaded period of time.

How often have you used the phrase "I didn't have time"? I know I am guilty of that which then made me realize, the more I say it, the more factual it becomes. There are so many things that we would like to do but very often, brushed aside in order to complete our daily work, chores and routines or we do not prioritize the things that we like to do or enjoy doing as important. When our priorities give way to chores and work, many things that would usually fuel our soul stays in the background and most time forgotten.

Sometimes, we let time just pass by, by sleeping a little too much or bumming around, doing nothing, perhaps due to lack of mood or just plain tired, mentally. We can have all the time in the world but if the mood isn't there, nothing gets done. That would be a different story all together and I feel that too sometimes. Mood affects me in ways that I can't really fathom sometimes. But that will be for another day's discussion.

I came to realise that the more we tell ourselves, or others that we do not have time, the more it is real that we do not have time. If you have heard of the "Law of Attraction", every word we say or write down, every word we think about, every action we choose to do, every wish we wish for, they each attract the realization of those words. "Be careful what you say, be careful what you write and be careful with what you wish for", can't be more true than this. But in cases when we say that we do not have time for such nonsense, then no worries there because whatever that is, it is not worth our time.

With all the hustles and bustles of our daily routine, I think we do need to make time for things that are important to us. Even if it means just 5 minutes and it applies to almost anything and everything. It can be as simple as reading a favourite book, indulging in our hobbies, calling up a loved one, writing or even making some "me time".

If it means something to us, we should make time. We can wake up a little earlier, sleep a little later, to indulge in what we like to do. When we make time, there is no more excuse that we didn't have time. If we can't seem to make time for it, I guess it is not that important after all.

Here I am, making time to write because as much as I have neglected this hobby of mine for the past few months, writing still means a lot to me. It is a form of my expression and I am going to make time to write again, even if it is 5 minutes a day. This goes to creating the mood to do so as well. I have to admit that a writer's block is real and there are days that I would stare on my screen, wondering what to write. But hey, little by little, bit by bit, makes an article right? Now, I am off to making some time to do the other things that I have been thinking about.