The Real Danger of Time

We look at chronological time as the scorekeeper. Oh you're 30 - you're over the hill, oh you're 40 - that's getting up there. Oh, you hit 50, did you, that's the new 40, isn't it... and so it goes. The body does it's thing, it droops, or folds, or moves more slowly, or not, the face shows the lines of the life you have lived. Chronological time is just a man-made concept to hide the real danger of time.

The real danger of time is not that we get old by years - the real danger of time is the fear that we might not have lived our passion to its fullest capacity. That we didn't let our heart sing quite loudly enough, that we didn't let our soul bubble up to the top and spill out of us, that we didn't live our dreams.

It is a terrible, truly hideous fear of regret. We are afraid that we will get to the place when our bodies are different, too far into our lives to change the fact, that we'll have to look back and acknowledge that we didn't live live our passion, our best, our biggest possible life.

It doesn't matter what age you are - there is no help for it, but to live your dreams. If you can't give up your day job, don't, but that is no reason to give up your dreams. If you have responsibilities, honor them, but that is also no reason to give up your dreams. We were given passion to sustain us, we were given destiny to fulfill. Ours is the right to be happy.

The real danger of time is getting to some obscure age and realizing you haven't done any of that. Don't risk it. Start today. Live your dream, follow your bliss, honor your passion, be who you really are and give to the world what you came to give.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2008 Darshan F Jessop