We have all heard it or said it ourselves, "I don't have enough time." As you get older, more and more responsibilities are being thrown at you, demands are increasing, while time seems to be decreasing. We are only given 24 hours in a day to accomplish whatever needs to be done. That is 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds to eat, sleep, breath, be successful, work, study, go to school, have a social life, watch our favorite TV shows, go to football games, spend time with our families and friends, cook dinner, etc. It just never seems like there is enough time to do everything.
However, I believe that the 24 hours we are given is like taking a test. You are given only a certain amount of time to complete whatever test you are taking, whether it be math, science, the ACT, whatever you can think of. If a time limit was not given, you could sit there and think of the correct answer for one problem for the longest time. But where is the benefit in that? Tests are ways to measure progress in a subject, and if you stick to one problem forever, you are not progressing.
Life is a test, and just like tests, we have a time limit in life. The moment you wake up, you are given 24 hours to make decisions, and whatever decision you make impacts a future decision. A person I look up to told me a line I will never forget:
"You make time for what is important to you."
To this day, this line stands true. I have so much going on: I have two jobs, sorority responsibilities, take 14 credit hours as a biomedical engineering major, try to maintain my social life, and spend as much time as I can with my family and friends. I'm also somehow supposed to fit sleep into all of that, but apparently sleep kind of does not exist as you get older.
With all of this going on, it is hard to balance everything out. Usually, I have to give up one thing to be able to do the other. And that is exactly what the line means. We are only given 24 hours in a day, YOU choose how you spend those 24 hours. The way you spend your time impacts the relationships you have with people, your career, and even yourself. When you give less time to someone, another person will give them that time. Sometimes, you have to give up going out late one night with all your friends, because you have a big test to study for that is worth 50% of your grade. How you spend that time is really up to you.
We tend to look at time as our enemy. When in reality, we are actually in control of time. We decide what happens every second of the day, not time. These 24 hours are there not to cause stress or frustration for anyone, but instead, it is supposed to help us realize what is important to us. If something really was that important to you, you would make time for it. Don't forget, Beyoncé has the same amount of hours as you do.
