Moment of Realization – 4 Questions to ask, if you got Time

There are simple answers to complex questions, yet such questions are not often asked – due to the perceived difficulty, portrayed in the mind. Once in a while, enough courage is poised to ask the right questions. This results in answers which promise true enlightenment. Causing a seismic shift in the way one thinks, thereby changing the reality one is confined within.

Q1 - One such basic question to ask is “What is your biggest treasure?”. Is it the material aspects (such as money, fame, health) or perhaps the emotional belonging (such as love, happiness, freedom, family) or the spiritual connection to your purpose and mission in life. What if the biggest treasure is the currency which can create whichever treasure is perceived to be the most desired by you. The currency itself can be converted into what is truly desired. Everyone owns this currency and it exists for all alive, in the same time. What if this currency is “time”. Time can be converted into seeking knowledge or giving it, creating happiness or taking it, making money or craving it, promoting health or destroying it. Is “time” a common denominator, and hence our biggest treasure?

Q2 - This leads to another question “Is this treasure growing or shrinking?”. Once we sense and appreciate the fact that time is indeed the supreme treasure, mind ponders to suggest ways of increasing it. Only to find that this treasure is on a constant path of depletion. You will never have it more than you have it now. And you always had it more yesterday, than you have it today. How bizarre!

Q3 – So then, if time is the true treasure which is depleting, the third question emerges, as to “How much do you really have?”. Answer to this question is truly puzzling. No one knows. Even the next breath is not guaranteed. Best practices exist for having a healthy body and mind, but no direct correlation in certainty has been established with respect to how much time for us remains. Hence the answer is “we don’t know how much time do we really have”.

Q4 – This means the biggest treasure that we have is time, its depleting in nature and yet we don’t know how much do we really have (or have left). Now comes the real question - “What are you going to do with it?”. Choice is always ours, we can use this time to complain, blame, destroy and be sad (for what we lack) or we can use it to appreciate, forgive, build and be happy (with all that we have).

It is entirely up to us how we use our time. Time – the biggest treasure that we have, which is depleting as we speak, not knowing how much we have – and we chose to be in this career, or this relationship, or among such group of people, or standing for this cause, or being effected by how people think about us. Effectively whatever you have chosen to do -  you are investing your biggest treasure in it.

Hence the question remains – “won’t you give your absolute best that you have – to – what you have chosen to do – with this time?”

In this age of realization, how about we think about this notion of time, on a daily basis, in everything that we do. And ask ourselves the cardinal question – “Would we want to leave this planet, better than we found it?" If yes, then “what are we going to do about it today?”, because tomorrow is not guaranteed, and surely our remaining time will be less than it is today.