I Thought I Had More Time
Don't Let Your Time Run Out
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 your time run out.
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“You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immortality, your broken-down marriages…that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top of your brains-I can prove to you that those were the characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States-Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.”-Oswald Spengler
It is happening.
The clock is ticking.
Opportunities are receding.
Daylight is burning.
The seasons are changing.
What are you doing with your days? Your nights? Your weekends?
What are you doing with your life?
Are you putting endless hours into your career? Your startup? Your craft?
Or are you doing nothing at all?
Are you wasting away on social media? Rotting from the core as you hope for views, clicks, and clout?
Are you avoiding your responsibilities to society? To your peers? To yourself?
Are you engaging in pointless drama? Hoping to win a victory no matter how Pyrrhic it may be?
Are you waiting? Just for that right opportunity? That right person? That first customer? That job offer that is just right? The angel investor who will come in and let you kickstart your company?
How long will you wait? How much time will you sacrifice until you are ready?
We quickly forget our limited time here and by the time we realize this fact, it is too late.
Our energy has its limits. Our opportunities need to be created, seized, and multiplied. Our resources however meager, need to be properly utilized.
Understand that you only have one life. One single life that is filled with infinite potential and infinite possibilities. But these possibilities have a finite timeline. You cannot fulfill them at the end of your journey.
You cannot fulfill them if you never begin your journey.
And so many never begin. The multitude look down at their phones, never once realizing the beauty of the world that surrounds them. The few that look to the horizon await a sign, some inciting incident, some moment of clarity, to kickstart their journey.
But it never comes. And if it does, it is far too late.
“The fact, and only the fact, that we are mortal, that our lives are finite, that our time is restricted and our possibilities limited, this fact is what makes it meaningful to do something, to exploit a possibility and make it become a reality, to fulfill it.”-Viktor Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
One of the greatest illusions that inhabit our minds is the notion that life is long. Yet this is foolish. Time is relative. Life may appear long to a mayfly but to us it passes in hours.
We must live with this frightening reality, this ultimate truth, this overwhelming burden that none of us can escape.
We are mortal.
We are frail.
We are only here for a limited amount of time.
And as mortals with a finite time here, we must do everything we can to achieve our goals and fulfill our potential, lest we become haunted by the greatest regret.
And just what is this regret?