Learning to value time

Learning to value time and the present moment is not as simple as it seems.

Time is the common denominator in our lives, in our stories and our futures.

Can you give me a little of your time?

Time shapes us and molds us according to what we live. Time makes us right in some things, but in others it takes it away. Time surprises us and makes us value it when we look back. All those things that we have done in the past, that in moments before they happened, we would not have even imagined. Therefore, it is a very precious commodity. Time is not bought, traded or sold.

Value those people who dedicate time to you, or rather, who dedicate time to you. Be it in any way, without stopping to measure; duration, frequency or quality. If they give you time as a gift, it means that you also accept it, and therefore you accept to receive it.

We are so immersed in immediate or short-term goals that we do not pay attention to the time that exists between starting and achieving those goals. For example, how many of us rush to work, getting distracted by our cell phones until we get to our subway stop, or busy our ears to quickly escape the reality of everyday life and get to our destination?

Learning to value the present time

I invite you to make some changes that you can make in your day to day life and thus value time in a different way:

Observation

Capture all the information that is around us, whether streets, landscapes, people, gestures ... All this information are inputs for our brain. You can learn a lot about what people need, how they feel or what their looks can transmit to you. looks can transmit to you.

Proprioception

Giving more importance to how or what we feel at any given moment. Whether it is rapid breathing, tense shoulders or a rumbling in the belly. Try to think about what it is that can make us feel this way and give some response to that need (take a deep breath, make a rotating movement of the shoulders, eat something...).

Thankfulness

Even if we have better days than others, others do not deserve that we transmit those bad vibes. Therefore, be grateful and try to be nice to others as you would like them to be nice to you. Not only for their sake, but for how you will feel after doing so. Be polite and smile more and you will see that they smile at you more than you thought, if they don't, don't worry, as your vibes and attitude will be better anyway.

Then, dedicate time to everything that makes you happy, fulfilledor simply calm and at ease with yourself. All those activities that make you enjoy the time you dedicate to them, those that you do not perceive time and in which you would spend hours and days seeming like minutes.

The importance of connecting with the people that surround us.

Spend time with those people who make you lose track of time, talking about everything and talking about nothing. Those who tend to be evergreen in time no matter how often you see them. To those others who are punctual, but intense. That give you strength, desire, illusions and experiences. All of them form your trajectory, your life path. Thank them all, I repeat, all of them that have passed through your life because in one way or another they have shaped you today to be who you are. Here we have the fantastic, exciting and mysterious crossroads.

You never know what new crossroads are going to come, they just will.. How long they will be there or what their purpose will be you will not know until, in time, you look back and understand what you have taken away from that crossroads along the way and over time.