What are You Wasting?

I recently watched the movie In Time. Set in the future, the premise is that where people stop aging at 25, due to engineering. They have a clock on their arms which counts down how much longer they have to live. People can transfer the time to others, use it to pay for things, and receive payments in time. Of course, the rich have centuries and the poor often have only minutes. Will Salas, the protagonist, meets someone who has centuries on his clock. This man asks Will, who is used to living day to day, “If you had as much time as I have, what would you do with it?” Will responses, “If I had all that time, I sure wouldn’t waste it.” 
That got me thinking about what I waste and why I waste it. I waste time. I waste money. I waste opportunities. Why? Because I believe I have a surplus. I watch TV at night instead of talking to my friends and family because I believe my friends and family will always be there. I waste money because I believe the paychecks will always come. I waste opportunities because surely I’ll get another one. 
But what if another chance never comes?
What if I knew that friend or family member was going to die? Would I spend time in front of the TV or with that person? What if I knew I had received my last paycheck? What if I knew that the stranger was planning to commit suicide...would I waste an opportunity to talk to him or her? What if my right to vote was taken away and I had wasted my last chance because I thought I was too busy? 
What if the right to worship God openly was taken away? What if you could no longer go to church or talk about Christ? What if all Bibles were ripped from your hands? How many Sundays have you lost where you were too tired to go to church? Would you remember from the Bible, or did you waste your opportunity to read it?
What about your life? When was the last time you did anything of value, or are you just wasting your life day after day? 
I believe that we waste only what we have an excess of. We throw away only what we think we will get more of. Take a look at your life. What are you wasting? Chances are it’s something that you think will be renewed. But will it?