Time.

You walk through life thinking time is on your side.

You think there will always be more time.

You believe whatever you don’t finish now can always be finished in time.

You imagine time as the gift that keeps on giving.

The truth is time does not give.

The truth is, time only takes.

It takes, and it takes and takes, until there is nothing left to take.

From the moment you are born, time has served one purpose.

That purpose is to count down the seconds of your life.

The truth is, one day, you will die.

But that truth has not found its way into your heart yet.

That truth only resides intellectually in your mind.

And anything that only lives in your mind is worthless.

It’s worthless because what only exists in the mind does nothing for you.

It does nothing for you because you do nothing about it.

The day you understand the value of time is the same day your clock stops ticking.