Have you ever met someone who doesn't like their birthday? I found it very weird the first time I met such a person I found out it was their birthday walked up to them and wished them a big happy birthday and they walked right out of the room we were in without saying a word. It was awkward to say the least.
Birthdays are funny things, I view them as my own personal "new year's day". I mean we don't really start a new year on the first of January unless we were born that day. In a few days I'll be in the year 39! When we are younger the doctor checks to see if you are developed for your age. I think this is a good idea, but I'm not sure why we stop. Everyone has expectations and ideas of where we should be at a certain age. So why don't we check to see how we are doing? Probably because we are all adults and make our own choices, but let's face it some adults are real bad at choices.
Now that I've rambled and you are still with me how about something interesting. We measure life in years while we are alive, but when we die our life is measured by what we did or accomplished. Take Abraham Lincoln for example, his life was cut short at 56, but what he did in his years as president made sure his life echoed on for years to come and possibly forever.
So why do we measure life in years, days, hours, etc? I'm sure after 10 people read this post the world will change and we will all measure our lives differently. OK maybe not, I'm not that big of a deal (yet). I may not change the world today, but what about you? If you measured this month with the achievements you made, accomplished goals, good deeds and lessons learned, would it changed how you viewed your time? Would you live differently if you stopped letting the clock drive your life? If you lived forever, what good is time for defining our lives? Since none of us know how much time we have isn't it also pointless to let time define us?
Go live your life, regardless if it make sense in the context of time. Did you spend 8 years in medical school and all you want to do is make cupcakes out of a truck, then go make cupcakes! Time spent is time spent, Wasting more time doing something to improve the time you already wasted seems kind of pointless.
One day this week look at what you did, not how long you did it. Be where you are not when you are.
Random thought for the day out ~
