If I Could Save Time in a Bottle
By josefina
@josie_ (9763)
Philippines
September 15, 2022 1:01am CST
Like the Jim Croce song lyrics in "time in a bottle", How wonderful if we could bottle "time" to be portioned out when needed.
I often think about "time" now that I am older compared to my younger years when we had no time to think about "time" since we were too busy thinking about the daily affairs of our lives.
Two quotes come to mind.
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's “Youth is the most precious thing in life; it is too bad it has to be wasted on young folks.”
I confess to doing so many foolish things in my youth.
"Man proposes, God disposes" is a title of an 1864 painting by Edwin Landseer. It was inspired by the search for a lost expedition that disappeared in the Arctic.
In the end, nothing really matters.
I'm less stressed now that I have adopted the attitude of enjoying each moment since bad things as well as good things don't last forever.
Do you think this attitude is too severe?
"Man proposes, God disposes" is a title of an 1864 painting by Edwin Landseer. It was inspired by the search for a lost expedition that disappeared in the Arctic.
In the end, nothing really matters.
I'm less stressed now that I have adopted the attitude of enjoying each moment since bad things as well as good things don't last forever.
Do you think this attitude is too severe?11 people like this
12 responses
@marguicha (215567)
• Chile
15 Sep 22
Your attitude is the same that I have now that I´m old. I call it wisdom
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@Beestring (13336)
• Hong Kong
15 Sep 22
Life is unpredictable. Nothing lasts forever. I plan for the future but live in the moment. I always believe that contentment is the key to happiness.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
15 Sep 22
I don't see a problem with your attitude. It's how most of us think when we become a little older. It helps keep us sane.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
16 Sep 22
@josie_ I don't want to live if I become senile or insane.
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@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
16 Sep 22
@DaddyEvil I don't like becoming senile in my old age but I can live with insanity. "No great mind existed without a touch of madness"~Aristotle. But there is discrimination in being insane. If you're poor, they call you crazy but if you have money, you're eccentric.
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@arunima25 (85389)
• Bangalore, India
15 Sep 22
That's the attitude that comes with the experience and it's called wisdom , when you care less and live more
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Youth is wasted on young folks. But then it's the foolish, stupid, impulsive, and careless things that we do makes youth the most precious time of life
, when you care less and live more.
Youth is wasted on young folks. But then it's the foolish, stupid, impulsive, and careless things that we do makes youth the most precious time of life1 person likes this
@arunima25 (85389)
• Bangalore, India
16 Sep 22
@josie_ I like that. I admire your sense of humour. I am going through the mid age in my forties and I admit that my mid age crisis is quite manageable as I have got wisdom in time
. I admire your sense of humour. I am going through the mid age in my forties and I admit that my mid age crisis is quite manageable as I have got wisdom in time 1 person likes this
@allknowing (130064)
• India
15 Sep 22
Enjoying each moment is the way to go. Time diffuses situations specially the bad ones
@xstitcher (30331)
• Petaluma, California
15 Sep 22
Had some rough times recently myself, but "God makes all things beautiful in His time." I had to keep thinking that.
@dgobucks226 (34388)
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3 Nov 22
Drawing on the good times at least for me is a great way to take a respite from those troubled times. Sweet memories I call it! Or as you say, time in a bottle, a great song by Jim by the way. Life is a journey traveled with many ups and downs, so enjoy the highs while they last. For they too shall pass into your next highway on one's journey in this life. And when this life passes into the next you will find everlasting peace with the Lord.
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