TIME IS TOO SHORT.

I was discussing with a sick friend yesterday.

At one point, I told him that he will be well soon.

He smiled, nodded with conviction and said softly,'I know'.

His response made me to realise that this guy knows what most of us don't know: that time is too short.

Soon is always sooner than we think.

I can still vividly remember, just like yesterday, the day I entered junior Secondary School.

I was wondering,'When will I finish this? Six years time? Too long.' It has been twelve years since then.

A doctor friend called me last year, and told me that he will be coming for a residency exam at our Teaching Hospital.

He came. We saw. He went back.

About three weeks later, I received the news that he had a car accident.

And he died three days after.

This was nine months ago but that call just seemed like yesterday.

Time is too short.

Time flies.

Today speedily becomes yesterday.

This year fast becomes last year.

The world moves at a supersonic,neck-breaking speed.

So,how do we cope? How do we utilize this fleeting time that is barely in our hands?

The answer is straightforward: 

Live in the moment. 

Savour every second.

And be constantly aware that time passes swiftly.

Any unused time is lost and gone forever.

Refuse to be sucked into the whirpool of the past.

And never lose your head in the mirage of the future.

For between the past and the future, you only have one time: The present.

This very second.

Real time.

Therefore,make every moment count.

Do any good that it lies in your power to do.

Smile. Laugh. Love. Play. Work. Create. Relax.

And like Benjamin Franklin said,'Never leave for tomorrow that which you can do today.'

We have all been allocated a portion of history to fill,and this is our very lives.

And it comes one day at a time.

So, carpe diem, sieze the day.

Attack it boldly. Courageously. Happily.

And have fun while it lasts because it can as well be your last day.

Time is too short.

Too short to self-destruct.

But long enough for one to live a happy and fulfilled life.