Killin’ time?
Eight months of my life were spent living with the extreme restrictions of an acute and chronic back problem. There wasn’t much I could do: couldn’t sit in a coffee shop, couldn’t sit at my own table for more than 2 minutes, couldn’t play active games with the kids, couldn’t stand for too long in one position, couldn’t lie down in one position for long either. Early on, when people asked me what I’d been doing, I often found myself answering the question by saying “Just killing time until my back gets better”. Eventually I realised the problem was not my back, but my choices…
You know that term - ”Killin’ time”? How often do you use it? You got to the coffee shop early, you have time to kill. You’re waiting for a significant event to occur, so you kill time until then. Everyone’s too busy to see you, so you kill time until they’re not. It’s raining today so you’ll just have to kill time until it stops.
Wait a second! Let’s think about this - time is the ultimate non-renewable resource! Life consists of many things but it is measured in time! If life = time, then killling time = killing life!
When this occured to me, that’s when I began to use my time to start laying the foundation for Great Circle, as well as deepening some significant relationships and my own personal foundations.
Riddle me this: What difference would it make to your life, if you thought of killing time as killing life??
