No Moment is Wasted

No moment is ever wasted because you are living it. Some actions are weighted more especially in the eyes and values of society. But when you choose to do something, the moment is never wasted. Even if it is just lounging on your couch after a long day, or stopping something else to have a quick conversation with a friend or stranger. The moment has value because it is something you chose to do. It might not be curing cancer or building a star ship or solving impossible math problems or feeding world hunger but that doesn't matter. It is for you. You are the hero of your own story. You are the narrator to your life. The author of your auto-biography. Which means you get to do what you want with your life.


We try to fill our lives with action and jobs and duties and entertainment so that no two seconds are empty of activity. We think that somehow adds value to our time. But it adds so much that the moments that we aren't running around with some task or chore or work is wasted. We fill our days up until we barely have time to think. We run ourselves into the ground trying to get all of this stuff done in the day only to start all over the next day. We stuff ourselves sometimes beyond what we can chew, can eat only to have a full plate the very next day.

Those moments in between were we don't do anything are not wasted. We need to incorporate breaks back into our lives. We need to find quiet moments of rest. I almost just said schedule. That's how rigid I feel we are. We have to schedule our decompression times. How absurd.

You should try to grab small moments in between the crazy to take a breath, to refocus on what you are doing. To 'waste a moment' or two. But it's not waste. We are not wasting time just existing. That has value in itself. It is not waste.