Sometimes I wonder to myself whether TIME has a personal grudge with me. Time and I haveknown each other for a very long period, we’ve known each other since before Iknew it was time to get my breast milk “fix”. Until recently, Time and I havenot had the sweetest of relationships. You see, depending on the relationship’splatform and its general well-being, Time can either be extensively cool withyou or it can be downright nasty to you. Lately we’ve been doing pretty well Imust say. I must also say that in the earlier years of my life, therelationship with Time wasn’t as rosy as now, yes relationships havedisagreements and quarrels but ours were just out of control, we just were notworking out.
Iguess I was a little too young, another factor was me not understanding thefundamentals of Time and it is said that ‘a man must be the master of his hoursand days, not their servant’, with that being said I must state that I wasTime’s slave…yes, a slave, this can be easier understood if you are aware thatservants are of a slightly higher status, so if thought servants have it hardthen you now know that I should be felt more sorry for than servants. Servantsare there to serve but are not necessarily owned by their master; slaves on theother hand have no control whatsoever and are owned by their masters; I was aslave to Time, some instances would even lead me to believe that I was abused;I felt no love towards it and received none.
Gladlytime has not broken my life *air punch*…neither has it made it, it has howevershaped it. I went from being terrified by it, to understanding it tocontrolling it,… well the truth of the matter is I’m in both the‘understanding’ and ‘controlling’ processes, because I’ll never fullyunderstand Time neither will I ever fully control it because it ismeasureless…but I am grateful that I went past the ‘terrified of time era’, asyou possibly imagine, I don’t have sweet memories of this era. This was the“get up, you’ll be late for school, TIME is not on your side young man” in bed,and in class “Well Mr Simelane, do send my warmest greetings to the detentionteacher, you seem to be quite fond of not submitting your work in time”, and onthe field “Muzi, once again u got the best TIME, Matthew, your TIME was closeto he’s, with more practice you;ll be there…well as for you Simelane, you’re anaverage athlete (I was actually way below average), good sprinter, you justhave the worst TIME”, in what is referred to as a ‘mind’, I was thinking “Sayanother word and I’ll give you the worst time of your life”.
Wellthank the Lord and growth for I now know myself and have a better understandingof Time, I have been equipped with the methods, skills and strategies thatenable me to effectively direct my own activities, because until you valueyourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not doanything with it.
Author: Skeel Simelane
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