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How Time And Distance Have Become Captors Of Our Reality

Something to consider in a time where no one has time.

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How Time And Distance Have Become Captors Of Our Reality
Samantha Mitchell

What would you do if the world decided to stop turning and your life suddenly evaporated as you once knew it?

Could you say you accomplished what you came here for, got to travel and see what you wanted to see, speak to and spend time with the one's you love?

Unfortunately for many of us, including myself, time and distance have become our enemies.

You don't have time to see your long-lost friend you haven't see in ten years. You don't have time to go that festival with your family that you used to go to religiously once a year. You don't have time to travel and see relatives you haven't seen in God-knows-when.

It's unfortunate, really. But time and distance have become captors of our reality. Shaping what we can and can not accomplish in our lifetime.

Sure we need to go to work and make money to pay bills. Sure we need to save money in order to travel and do the things that make us full and our hearts happy.

But since when did two once minute factors in our life become the most prevalent shifters and shapers of our perspective realities?

It is one thing to have a focus and purpose that shapes our dreams and aspirations. We all have drivers and motives to get us where we plan on going.

But once those take over and you lose what really matters, it's impossible to get the time back. Unfortunately, you can't go back in time and mend your actions and decisions. Time is an essence that shapes our reality and mends our life in a circle of what needs to get done.

Instead of accepting yourself as a slave to time and helpless to its ways, think on how you can change it. How you can change your reality to focus on what makes you happy and go after it. Mend time in your own right to spend it on what is important.

The next time you ask yourself if it is worth it to try to spend time with this family or friend this holiday, even though it may be out of the way, think on it first before deciding that you can't. You never know what will happen, but at least you can say that you took the time to live.

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