It’s About Time
After all the effort of getting ready for Christmas—an effort that we are encouraged by the shops to commence earlier each year—it’s sobering to think how quickly the holiday passed us by. I know time is supposed to speed up as one gets older, but I suspect for most people of any age, 25th December seems an age ago.
The lights have come down, the trees are packed away or piled up at the allotments awaiting shredding. We’re half-way through January already! And, if the commentators are to be believed, 90{ca225c2aedd0a3230fdf18169b52e0cd27b098bc7f89404059909f89450e2217} of us will already have broken—or will be on the way to breaking—our New Year’s resolutions.
We seem to have had such a sad start to 2016, both nationally and locally. For anyone who was a teenager in the 1960s when Space Oddity first came out, David Bowie has been a permanent fixture on the music scene ever since. And for anyone who loves Harry Potter or thinks Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves has the best Sheriff of Nottingham ever, it’s hard to think that will be no more films from Alan Rickman. In our own town, we lost an active and popular member of the community on 3rd January and the size of
the crowd at his memorial service, believers and non-believers alike, was testament to how much his loss will be felt.

It’s unoriginal – but nevertheless true – to say that time is short and we should make the most of it while we can, as we never know what’s around the corner.

So making the most of one’s time is not necessarily about getting through as much as possible, as quickly as possible, but more about giving everything the length of time it deserves.
And next time, I’m going to put more money in the parking meter!
What about you, gentle reader? How do you make the most of your time? And what would you give more time to, next time around?
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