Time

Of all the ways that be thought of to show someone, to show something your love, to show that you care, time is the most precious. To give someone your time is to give of yourself. It is your time to give and you will never get it back. It will be gone forever.

And yet we sometimes, when we think, we we realize, when we become aware, give our time to others and think nothing of it. But to really, really give your time takes concentration and intention. It takes self awareness. Simply to be in someone’s presence is not enough. It is nothing.

Giving someone your time is to listen and to pay attention. It is to put all other things aside and to find it in yourself to care enough to forget, forget about yourself. It is a gift that is not easy to give. It is that little silence that we put aside for another day only to find that the day past us long ago.

The world is filled with people with ample time to give and perhaps they desire to give it. But it just seems like they, it seems like we, forget. It is easy to do, to lose track of time. And when we do we do not have it to give. And we say: we do not have time.

But time is something we we have all of the time. We often fetter it away, not thinking of what we are losing and why we are losing it. So why not give someone your time. YOUR time is a gift that only you can give. It is most personal and intimate gift we can give.

It is not all we have, but it is all that matters.