The Value of Time
Posted by Sarah Mills on Sunday, August 22, 2010
Under: Wonders of Life
One beautiful lesson I am learning now is the way in which time unfolds. Although patience has always been on my side, there is another aspect to time which is challenging me now. That aspect is space, atmosphere, experience. Patience allows me to wait, to watch and to observe. This new aspect is endurance - surviving and then thriving throughout the process of change. My patience is being taken to a new level where I am engaging and questioning, testing and experimenting with the changes happening around me.
I am presented with the opportunity to alter the change that is occurring...by creating the flow I want instead of the flow I observe. Like all opportunities, there are challenges, resources and strengths to draw on. In this case, I have set myself up in such a way that the outcome of my current situation is entirely dependent upon my attitude of positivity and proactivity.
The one important lesson of endurance I'm faced with is allowing elements over which I have no control into my equation. Time is such an element. Although well skilled in patience, my endurance is still pushed with every challenge. Enduring the things I have no control over is particularly tricky. Frustration is regular, confusion too, and every so often there's anger. Now is the time for me to learn that sometimes the only way to maintain control is to accept the things I cannot control.
There's so much to accepting this that it runs very deep and changes many things for me. I've learnt that the act of letting go is not passive but quite deliberate. The power of acceptance is not simply embracing something and tolerating it, but truly seeing the essence of the thing in itself, it's purpose and drive. This has shown me the meaning of challenges and the importance positivity plays in shaping your footsteps forward. It really comes down to how open you are to opportunities to learn, and opportunities to remain true enough to yourself to not accept just any change.
I recommend giving time, and using it for your own purposes, not just the ones you easily observe.
I am presented with the opportunity to alter the change that is occurring...by creating the flow I want instead of the flow I observe. Like all opportunities, there are challenges, resources and strengths to draw on. In this case, I have set myself up in such a way that the outcome of my current situation is entirely dependent upon my attitude of positivity and proactivity.
The one important lesson of endurance I'm faced with is allowing elements over which I have no control into my equation. Time is such an element. Although well skilled in patience, my endurance is still pushed with every challenge. Enduring the things I have no control over is particularly tricky. Frustration is regular, confusion too, and every so often there's anger. Now is the time for me to learn that sometimes the only way to maintain control is to accept the things I cannot control.
There's so much to accepting this that it runs very deep and changes many things for me. I've learnt that the act of letting go is not passive but quite deliberate. The power of acceptance is not simply embracing something and tolerating it, but truly seeing the essence of the thing in itself, it's purpose and drive. This has shown me the meaning of challenges and the importance positivity plays in shaping your footsteps forward. It really comes down to how open you are to opportunities to learn, and opportunities to remain true enough to yourself to not accept just any change.
I recommend giving time, and using it for your own purposes, not just the ones you easily observe.
In : Wonders of Life