You may delay, but time will not
- Benjamin Franklin

I have been thinking lately of the continuous march of time. Regardless of where you are or what you are doing, it is always in motion. It pushes us forward, whether we like it or not, whether or not we are prepared. Like the weather, it is unbiased in its motion. For time stops for no one. Money, fame, and power have no effect on the stopping of the eternal ticking. Regardless if you live in London or the Sudan, time moves equally.

Why then do we waste it? Why do some spend their ever vanishing days loafing about, waiting for their life to begin, instead of living the one they have? What purpose do they suppose they are succeeding at with this behavior? The pendulum stops for no man. We have no more control over it than we do the rain.

C. S. Lewis put it best when he said "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." With each sun rise brings about new possibilities. No matter what the day before contained, the new one brings about. As the sun arches across the sky and settles in beyond the western horizon, we have every opportunity to change the world, no matter how small the contribution may be. It matters not if you are a brick layer or a rocket scientist, you have every opportunity to make time as valuable as you wish. Embrace it while you still can.

In this day and age we only have the limits we put for ourselves. Technology has made it able for any man to become a millionaire, to give yourself your fifteen minutes of fame. There are those who do not realize this, but this does not mean that they are any less worthy than those who do. To those for whom their motto is carpe diem will always surpass those who's motto is "I'll seize the day... tomorrow".

Why, may you ask, is am I suddenly waxing philosophic? It strikes me that if we as a species lose the ability to do so, then we have truly failed. Man was meant to ponder about the things around him and those who do not have become blind to the world. For imagination and curiousity are the true fuels of the mind. There is no such thing as a scientist who does not ask "what if". There will never be a final frontier for the mind.

I hope you make the best out of the time you are allotted. May you have a good day and the ones that follow after.