Oh Time

07.26 in award, blogger, oh, Paid, the, time, versatile

Dont you find that time goes fast? Sometimes too fast. Yes this is a cliché! But its both amazing and scary how it flies by. I mean just look at a child, whether it be a close relative or friends or it could be a child in the public eye, look at how quickly they develop and grow from a very dependant baby to a running here there and everywhere toddler.

Just look at families on YouTube such as the Sacconejolys, they document everyday of their lifes and you realise how quickly that time has gone when you watch an older video from a few months ago, you see such a growth in their children. Which is amazing! 

But, time passing quickly is, more often than not, viewed as a bad thing. Apart from when you where younger, in school watching and waiting for the clock to tell you its almost home time. But as you get older it feels as if the years become shorter, and Im only 17! I cant seem to get my head around the fact I turn 18 this year and going of to uni. Most of us soon realised that watching the clock only makes us feel stressed. Whether it be a deadline, not enough time to do everything or simply realising that you arent doing anything, we all know the feeling of being under the glare of a clock. 

Even if you were to get rid of all clocks around you, although you might not notice the time pass so much, it will still creep up on you and be gone. Normally, you can run from a lot of things or simply ignore them.Now I think thats a scary concept. But time is YOUR past, YOUR present and YOUR future. Why should we run from that, we can control what we do with it! 

I myself am very guilty of just letting time slip away, you know the usual way - spending countless hours in the depths of YouTube, getting through a whole season in a short amount of time or scrolling endlessly through Tumblr (sneaky little link to my tumblr). But Im aiming to slowly start to utilise my time more efficiently, simply starting off with spending more time on college work like I mention in my New Year Goals. Then gradually move onto bigger things like taking more trips, spending less time in front of a screen and more time around family and friends - basically just creating new, and varied memories so that my days dont all blur into one.

So basically, what Im trying to get across in this blog post that has been bugging me for weeks trying to get what Im trying to say out into not to rambley sentences, is the perception of time is subjective, everybody is following the same basics of a clock, but its up to you what you do with it!

I thought Id add in a little thing I wrote when the idea of this post first came to me, I was slightly unsure whether I should share it or not...but oh well.

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A Little Message Being The Best At Everything

19.21 in a, at, being, best, everything, little, message, oh, Paid, the, time

So the other day in my English lesson, we where discussing the topic of knowledge and wisdom. What are they? Is one better or more important than the other? Which one would you rather have? As a class we kind of came to the conclusion that they bounce off each other. To be wise you need to have knowledge and gain experience so that you can approach things and having wisdom allows you to make judgement on the knowledge youve learnt.

We talked about the fact that a lot of people dont have a perfect balance between the two, and therefore lacked a quality of the other. For example you may get someone who is very knowledgeable and can list off fact after fact but put them in a situation where they have to use it, like teaching it to a class, and they may not perform to as high a standard as you thought - because they lack the experience. Whereas, someone who may have less knowledge but has delved into what they know and been in a teaching situation before, may be able to deliver the class better but without an abundance of facts.

When I came away from the lesson, I realised that it fits in with a little message I always tell my brother. Some days, my youngest brother will come home from school and will tell me about little bits of his day such-a-body read really well today or such-a-body answered almost all the questions in science today. As with practically everyone, when he sees people around him doing better than him on certain things, it gets to him. Hes 8. Hes already comparing himself to those around him. Thats not how it should be.

But then there will be days he comes home with a big smile on his face to tell us I did really well on the maths test, I got a better mark than such-a-body. I always turn to him and, after saying well done, explain to him that everybody is going to be better than someone at something and worse at something compared to someone else. If everyone all had a nice balance between every single skill and quality out there where would we be? Would there be a lack of competition to better ourselves? Would we be so technologically or medically advanced? Would there be constant uproar? 

In my opinion, I think everyones skills and qualities balance out. Using my brother as an example, he is better at maths than English, but the kid he mentioned who is really good at English may not be so good a maths. Personally, my spelling skills arent that good, but Im not so bad at drawing graphs. Even Albert Einstein had his balance, as we all know he was a genius but as a child he was a slow learner. 

Its like a weighing scales. If you have too many good/bad skills or qualities, there is an imbalance. Like I said, I think everyone balances out, so instead of looking like this ...

 I think its more like this ...

So, it doesnt matter if we arent the best at everything we do. As long as we put effort in a give it a go - thats the important thing. 

Id love to know what you think about this idea. Do you have any little messages about the topic?

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