Speaker - Time

Transcript

Hello, it seems to be that time is always against you, seems to be like time never truly agrees with you, now does it? That everything you're doing, it seems like you're losing time. Time is just escaping, isn't it? That's how you feel, you feel like everything is moving faster than you are, that you just keep wasting time and everybody around you uses theirs wisely.

That is what you feel every day, constantly bugging at you, whenever you see somebody post that they graduated, that they got that promotion, that they got a new house, that they're having kids, you feel like you're just stuck in the same place every single day, with no movement forward, just staying constantly still, even though you feel like you're doing everything. That is how you truly feel right now, and I'm here to tell you that, unfortunately, you are correct, however, it's not the end of the world, and even though you are correct, you are viewing things incorrectly, because you are comparing yourself to the opinion and life experiences of other people. They will never know what it's like to live your life, and you can never know what it's like to live somebody else's life.

It's something that we always strive to compare ourselves to, everybody else, all the time, but we never truly understand that that in itself is impossible, it is not something that we should be doing at all, specifically when you realize something as simple as how people have lived such a completely and vastly different experience, because they themselves experience everything completely differently than you. In other words, let's say that you and another person went through the exact same life, the same, nothing changed down to every millisecond of your entire life. That other person, they would have experienced it completely differently than you, because his perception is controlled by the individual.

It does not matter at all if the experiences are exactly the same, the individual will choose and unfortunately not choose how to experience things, because every mind is unique, every soul is unique, there is nothing that you can compare yourself to, other than yourself yesterday, that is the only truth. And even then unfortunately, who you were yesterday is vastly different than who you are today, even if it was just 2, 3, 4, 5 days ago, you are already changing. You might not feel it, but there are little tiny instances every single day that are subconsciously changing you, your opinions, your thoughts, everything.

And that is why this whole problem of comparing yourself in time and how people are advancing by getting the car, by getting the job, by getting the promotion, by graduating and you comparing yourself to them, is completely and utterly pointless. All it does is produce stress that isn't supposed to exist in the first place. You are living your life and as long as you are doing things for yourself and you are trying to be better, even if you're not, it's okay, life is filled with lows so you can experience the highs of them.

And that goes for everyone, absolutely everyone, unfortunately, that is life and that is actually the beauty of it. This is something that you must understand, it isn't something that will ever change. And time, even though they say we make it up and it doesn't exist, it literally controls us every day.

We have to clock in at a specific time, we have to be at school at a specific time, we have to go to bed at a specific time, our life is run by something that doesn't exist. So that, that makes it more real than anything else. Time is by far the most important and sacred currency that we have and the fact that you are comparing that to somebody else's currency, somebody else's time and their experience through time, is absurd.

It is something that you must learn to unlearn. That habit will never bring you true happiness, all it will lead to is insatisfaction and annoyance. Because when you see other people doing well, the only person that you have to blame for not doing well is you and that is unfair.

The other reality is that there will always be somebody that is doing better and that comparison is also false. You only have to look at your life, at you. How are you doing every day? Could you be doing more? There are things that you know you should be doing, but at the same time there are things that you are already doing very well.

Take pride in that, feel good about that, don't let this comparison that you keep going on and on about defeat you. It doesn't exist, it is not real and all it does is hurt you, it will never help comparing yourself to everybody else and like I stated before, it shall never ever help you or be of any use to you the comparison of other people's completely different experiences and how they perceive their progress. So you, focus on you and focus on your time and doing the most you can with it because one day will be your last and you will regret all the comparisons that you did and all the things you could have been doing instead of comparing yourself to others.

So go and be happy in knowing that you, your experience, your time is unique and nobody will ever know what it's like, but that is a good thing. Now go and make the most of it.