Don’t Let the Clock of Life Run Out

Never Forget That the Clock Is Always Ticking

Welcome to the paid edition of YouTopian Journey, a Substack featured publication. Each week I will be sharing unique wisdom that can help you in the daily battles that we must all fight in the game of life. This week we discuss why you must not let the clock of life run out!

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BEFORE WE BEGIN

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Beginning in this issue and continuing on for the next month, we will discuss how to use pain, how to live with a sense of urgency, how to battle distraction, and ultimately, how to use your time to live a more fulfilling life.

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Now onto the good stuff.

THE CLOCK OF LIFE IS COUNTING DOWN

“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on major matters like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”-Charles Bukowski

The clock is ticking.

The time we have is finite.

We are limited by the laws of nature and the laws of physics. Everything that has a beginning has an end. Everything that is alive will only remain so for a short period of time.

And there is nothing that we can do to stop it.

Nothing.

This is probably the most important lesson we can learn and act on yet so few do.

Why is this the case?

Why do we believe that we have endless days and endless time?

Because spoilers, we don’t.

We have become a society so spoiled and so ignorant that we believe with our medicines and our diets and all of our medical innovations that we can live forever. Ninety is the new eighty and we are only as old as we feel.

But make no mistake about it, the clock is ticking. We can mitigate the end but we cannot prevent it.

All we can do is utilize the time we are given.

And utilize it we must.

There is a sense of urgency that we have lost. Our ancestors had it. Crops had to be farmed during certain parts of the year and stored. Shelters needed to be built in good weather so that the population could survive in the bad. Knowledge had to be obtained because information wasn’t so readily available. Risks, true risks that could result in injury and death, had to be taken.

There wasn’t much time to lay about and waste.

But in our age of omnipresent knowledge and opportunities, we spend our time as if we had a credit card with no limit.

Binging shows. Lost in virtual worlds. Scrolling through social media. Putting in nights and weekends at jobs we hate. Watching hundreds of channels of television. Never once thinking that each day spent, each hour lost, can never be recovered.

All the while the clock of life continues to tick.

For many, time has already run out.

They just don’t know it.