Borrowed Time

Hello everyone,

Long time no blog!

I can't believe it is almost two years since the last time I blogged. Time is flying by so quickly. This thought has been echoing in my mind and in the very fibre of my being, "time, time, TIME is flying by".

A few days ago, I thought of a friend of mine who has kidney problems. Late last year, he had undergone a transplant and  his body first accepted then rejected the donor kidney. The old one was put back and he was asked to come back at least six months later. A colleague of mine was off work for some weeks and we were told that he underwent dialysis. It was while I was thinking of my colleague that I remembered my friend and I thought of asking him this question, "how does it feel to live on borrowed time?". And then it struck me- we are all living on  borrowed time. We are even worse off because we don't know how much time we have.

For a while now, I have been feeling like the world is spiraling really quickly to an end. Wars and more wars, pestilences (ebola!), natural disasters to name a few.  This brings to mind a bible verse that tells us to redeem the time, cause the days are evil. To top it all, is the very speed of time. I wake up at 4am and by the time I am fully awake, it is 4.30am. Okay, I drag myself up and start my devotions or absolution. I blink and it is 5.30am. And so my day goes. I get to work, putter around and it is 3.00pm. Where is this time flying to? Sometimes, I wish I can chase time down and ask it to sit in one place for a minute. I do that to my son who has boundless energy and expends it  by jumping around. Just watching him makes me tired (I know all mothers of little boys can relate...smile).

I find it a bit distressing that time is going by so quickly. My bucket list is still long and there is so much I wish to do. However, with the realization that we are living on borrowed time, or should I say living on very limited time, I made a decision. To start from now to do all those things I have been planning to do and yet keep postponing to a later day. I mean, the later day is almost here and will soon pass me by. I have pulled out the bucket list and have started the process of ticking away. This has brought me here...back to blogging.

Is there anything you have been postponing? I urge you to take the first step and begin. As a favorite writer of mine used to say,"beginning is half done".

Thanks for reading.

Cheers.