Time is Money
Have you seen the movie “In Time” starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried? It is a fascinating movie. The movie is all about time. You live for 25 years, and then your clock starts ticking, literally. You worked at a job to get time to lengthen your life. For everything you purchase, it costs you time and shortens your life. You could earn time. Share time. Steal time. Borrow time. Gamble away time. In this movie, “time is money.”
Part of the fascination of this movie for me was that even in that society, there were the “haves” and the “have-nots.” For the “have-nots,” life was a scramble for more time. Every purchase seemed to be thought out and calculated with the end result, “How much time do I have left.” The “haves” didn’t seem to notice the cost of things. They knew that they had plenty of time and that life would not end soon.
Without giving away all the details of the movie, I have been drawn back time and again to the way time was spent. Every transaction seemed to be done with careful consideration. Do I really need this? How much time will I have left? Will I have enough time until I can get more, or will my life “time-out (die)?”
If we gave the same consideration as to how we spend our time and money, this world would be a much better place in which to live. With this consideration, we seem to become aware of how precious life really is, not only for us but for all people. We learn that true generosity comes out of a place of gratitude in our own lives, where we remember someone else generously sharing with us when we were in need. There becomes a deep need and passion to help others.
How will you share your time and money?
Do you know how precious life is?
Isn’t it time that we shared that with others?
For many of us today, we find that we have more time at the end of the money. So what do we do with our time? We don’t have to worry quite as much about the hour of our demise. We can take a lesson from the movie. Life seemed to be more precious.
