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"Time is an illusion" - Albert Einstein.

Our dear comrade, Albert could not have expressed this thought any better than I could have licked a bowl of fresh cream, clean. Everyday, every thought we have, move we make, decision we take seems to be going by quicker and quicker like a hungry man at a buffet.

"Where is the time?!" - I ask myself this question too frequently for my liking. There's so much I want to do, so many ideas and thoughts to share, to do lists to complete, deadlines to meet, goals to achieve and people to please yet time is the only thing that's getting in my way!

Recently, while caught up in the mayhem of my life, I got a chance to take a "Kit-Kat" break and go shopping (my fav!) for a birthday gift for a dear friend. Having managed to find an ultra cool hourglass was great but it was the message on the box that got me truly inspired. 

It went as follows:

"A person that dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time". "I am becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is, the refinement of your soul through time". "You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time". "Opportunity knocks at the strangest times. Its not the time that matters, but how you answer the door". "When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at that moment time does not exist and we are truly free". "A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water". "Time spent laughing, is time spent with the Gods". "Time is the subtle thief of youth". "Lost time is never found again". "May you always live in interesting times". "Regret for wasted time, is more wasted time". "Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got". "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". "Time is free, but it is priceless, you cannot own it, but you can use it". "Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time". "Time is what we want most, but use the worst". "Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial". "The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and know that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream." "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all time." "There's a time for everything." 

Yes, that is just a few definitions of time. Defining the meaning of love might just be simpler but alas, the one thing that I have realized is that the faster we run to beat time, the further back we go. Time waits for no man and no man should wait for time. Don't let time define your actions, let your actions define your time.

After all, time is just an illusion...