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Out of time
Let’s not waste our time, and choose to use it well throughout our life!
This pandemic taught us that the most precious resource we have is not wealth but time. All the wealth in the world is useless when faced with death. A healthy lifestyle can maybe prolong our existence, but in the end, we never know when our life will terminate. We all know several cases where people of different ages had a full future ahead of them, but all of their plans fizzled into nothing when they met their fate. The pandemic was a reality check for most of us. It placed us face-to-face with our mortality. In some cases, it did so in a brutal way, when our loved ones had to depart from this earth on their own, in a cold hospital room.
All of this reminds me of a famous quote from the J.R.R. Tolkien book — The Fellowship of The Ring. Frodo, the main character, said to the wise wizard
“I wish it need not have happened in my time”.
Gandalf’s reply was:
“So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.”
