Rodin (1840-1917)
Well. It has been one year since the day I first began this page of restless thoughts. Time has been flying by. Ticking away at my brain as if I am a prisoner tormented with Chinese water torture. Time. Time has so much impact on your emotions. You either are a master to it or a slave to it. Nothing is a waste of time...if you use the experience wisely. If. I have learned countless lessons in life over the past 4 years of what may seem to most as a wasted relationship. Some look at time as a turntable that is continuously turning steadily. But, one day the music will stop. Queen Elizabeth I who was regarded in her day as the wealthiest person alive said on her deathbed that she would give all of her possessions for one moment of time.
So why do we place the urgent over the important? So often what is important is not urgent therefore always gets shoved to the back of the line or swept under the rug for what is urgent….which generally is not important at all. So you are either a slave to time or a master of it. It has the ability to stress you endlessly if your “To Do List” seems to take more time than your life can handle. The waves of times are going to continue. So it is important to take the time for yourself and reflect on who you are, where you are heading and what lessons you have learned from your past in order to not make those mistakes again.
Snipits from "The End of Time" by D. Horowitz
Over 350 years ago in Paris a great scientist lived named Blaise Pascal. He was a brilliant man but became deathly ill at a young age. Wracked with pain due to his illness he busily began taking notes on scraps of paper. The scraps were cut with scissors and sewn with needles without any order. When he died they found this work and of course nobody knew how it was supposed to be put together. Their order was left in Pascal’s mind. The little notes he had been unable to complete before the end scattered everywhere. When they found these scraps they decided to organize them with numbers and created his final work. They called it Pascal’s Pensees: “The Thoughts of Monsieur Pascal about Religion and Other Matters, Which Were Discovered among His Papers after He Died.” The number 205 captured me and thought it would be perfect for my anniversary blog.
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I fill I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here?”
Time will continue on even when you are gone. There is no getting it back. This prayer will not be answered. The question is, do you believe in God or not…should you or should you not? Pascal was torn between this due to his scientific background and decided to weigh the options and crunch the numbers of either or…He proposed a mathematical solution to this problem or “gamble” in the game of life and death. The players in this gamble must calculate the risks of believing that there is a God and that He will provide us with what we so pitifully desire. They must weigh the risks against the chance that there is no God and that we are alone. Then they must make their choice. Pascal summed it all up in Fragment #233. “A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. God is, or He is not…What will you wager? Weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is…If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is!” This riddle is now infamously known as Pascal’s Wager and the bottom line is this; Since you cannot know, it is better for you to believe than not. So pray all you want, believe in God but know Time will not stop ticking for you so cherish this day and reflect on your past often.
"Regret For Wasted Time Is More Wasted Time.”
-Mason Cooley
