\u201cHe was a wonderful person and what little time I did get to spend with him was a blessing. He was too young.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLife is too short. I miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Time influences every life and is a constant presence in life.\u00a0 Every story if life relates to time, but in the past week, when I received this assignment, I was reminded of one of the worst characteristics of time: \u00a0Time is always fleeting and it can be scarce when you need it most.\u00a0 This scarcity is found in many elements everyday.\u00a0 I find scarcity in the time spent with the college decision, during field hockey, and with personal relationships. Through these experiences I have learned time is always elapsing and causing new unwanted endings in life.<\/p>\n
I felt the pressure of the shortage of time when I had to pick a college.\u00a0 I had years, then months, then weeks, then just days to make my decision.\u00a0 Where did the time go?\u00a0 It was as if it continued to fly around me and I just stood still trying to make such a difficult decision in my life.\u00a0 But as my crucial time continued to deplete, I made a decision.\u00a0 I would attend the University of Richmond the following fall.\u00a0 It was not an easy choice to make and the pressure of the time crunch did not make it any easier.\u00a0 Time is unyielding and this was one of the first situations when I realized just how difficult it could be to be in a situation where time can run out.\u00a0 But I am glad that I made the decision and that this deadline pushed me toward it.\u00a0 Other situations with little time have not faired so well in my life though.<\/p>\n
The second instance that stands out in my memory of having little time occurred earlier in my senior year at the district field hockey championships.\u00a0 For the second year in a row our team worked our hardest to make it to this game and all we had to do was beat one more team to make it to State.\u00a0 It was the end of the second half and we were losing 1-0.\u00a0 We had time left to win, but very little.\u00a0 Each pass that was made or foul that occurred took up more of the precious time that we had remaining in the game.\u00a0 Obviously, being in the game at this time I wasn\u2019t thinking of the impact of time on my life, but looking back now, I think of this moment every time I think of how time has affected my life.\u00a0 It came down to the last thirty seconds of the game and we had one last chance.\u00a0 We got a corner off of the other team\u2019s foul and set up with everyone and everything we had on the line.\u00a0 One shot, two shots, three shots, and then cleared.\u00a0 The whistle blew and we were out of the precious time that we needed so badly.\u00a0 My team lost that day and that was my last game I played with that team.\u00a0 Looking back I remember if we had just had a little more time, just one more minute we could have done it.\u00a0 But we didn\u2019t, time stops for nothing and is unyielding.\u00a0 In this situation time was not on my side.<\/p>\n
As stated in the introduction, this past week alone has reminded me of the scarce qualities of time that I have refenced in the stories above.\u00a0 But the lack of time that I was referring to then is the worst kind of all.\u00a0 The time that runs out when a life ends.\u00a0 The quotes at the top of the page came from my Facebook and refer to a friend of mine from home that suddenly died from a preknown heart condition at the age of twenty this past week.\u00a0 For him and for many others, the time of life ran out much too soon.\u00a0 Not only did time run out for my friend and neighbor, Scott, but it also ran out for those of us around him to spend time with him.\u00a0 Time for us was too short to get to be with and really know a great person like Scott.\u00a0 He lived behind me for almost my entire life, and in that time I can think of a few instances when we interacted either in the neighborhood or at school, but to me that is not enough.\u00a0 I wish that his time had not gone so fast and I could go back and get to know him better that I did.\u00a0 Death, to me, is the ultimate proof of the fact that both time is too short and unyielding.\u00a0 Other than the recent loss of Scott, I have also lost others in my life very close to me including all of my grandparents.\u00a0 The little time that I got to spend with each of them is now in the form of just precious memories.\u00a0 The time for us to spend together was so scarce, that my memories are few, and even nonexistent in some cases.\u00a0 Like in making the decision, or in the game, time just ran out and it is precious time that I cannot get back again.<\/p>\n
Yes, there are many positive aspects of time and organized time that have led to countless human advances.\u00a0 But through my own life experiences, I have realized the negative effects that time, or lack of time, can have on our lives.\u00a0 Time is continuously fleeting and we can never go back once it has passed.\u00a0 We need to use to the fullest the time we are given.\u00a0 We need to spend that time going over every detail of any life decision.\u00a0 We need to work our hardest in that game so we feel we have nothing left when time has run out.\u00a0 Most importantly, we need to make the best of the time that we have with those in our lives, for we never know when it may run out for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe was a wonderful person and what little time I did get to spend with him was a blessing. He was too young.\u201d \u201cLife is too short. I miss you.\u201d Time influences every life and is a constant presence in … Continue reading