Time
We all look at the 24 hours we are given each day with a different perspective. There is no right or wrong when it comes to how we define the world we live in, there is only our own personal perspectives.
In 1989 a recent high school graduate took on the rigors of college with very little understanding of what was expected of him, and what he expected of himself. Deciding to attend college 2500 miles from his home was both liberating and uncontrolled. It was a short six months later that he realized that he may not have been up to the task. For years to follow he would reflect on the mistakes and lost opportunities that were provided him in his departure into the world of individuality and self sufficiency.
For years to follow, and even to this day, he feels that time is no longer on his side. The time that was wasted in earlier and younger years no longer seem fleeting, but instead a lost opportunity to take advantage of what the world had to offer him at such a young age.
Even only a year ago, 6 hours of sleep an night seemed like an eternity in his struggle to regain time that he had long since lost. Now with the nights growing shorter, 3-4 hours seems like time wasted. With days running into each other with only a daily fleeting glimpse of the sun to realize the passing of the hours, there is an understanding the he may not get caught up, and possibly, no one ever gets "caught up."
In the midst of all that a person can expect out of themselves, thoughts turn the philosophies of the golfing greats. Ben Hogan (your scribe believes it was) once said, "every day you don't play golf, is two days longer it will take you to get better." You scribe believes that good old Ben was an optimist, but he understood what it took to be one of the great ones.
In 1989 a recent high school graduate took on the rigors of college with very little understanding of what was expected of him, and what he expected of himself. Deciding to attend college 2500 miles from his home was both liberating and uncontrolled. It was a short six months later that he realized that he may not have been up to the task. For years to follow he would reflect on the mistakes and lost opportunities that were provided him in his departure into the world of individuality and self sufficiency.
For years to follow, and even to this day, he feels that time is no longer on his side. The time that was wasted in earlier and younger years no longer seem fleeting, but instead a lost opportunity to take advantage of what the world had to offer him at such a young age.
Even only a year ago, 6 hours of sleep an night seemed like an eternity in his struggle to regain time that he had long since lost. Now with the nights growing shorter, 3-4 hours seems like time wasted. With days running into each other with only a daily fleeting glimpse of the sun to realize the passing of the hours, there is an understanding the he may not get caught up, and possibly, no one ever gets "caught up."
In the midst of all that a person can expect out of themselves, thoughts turn the philosophies of the golfing greats. Ben Hogan (your scribe believes it was) once said, "every day you don't play golf, is two days longer it will take you to get better." You scribe believes that good old Ben was an optimist, but he understood what it took to be one of the great ones.
Time
posted by JB at 9:02 PM 
