VernetteOutLoud

My hours

We all get the same 24 hours in a day. No more, no less. If you’re like me, you spend 5-6 hours sleeping…on a good night. That leaves 18 hours. Then I spend 8-9 hours working on my employer’s dream. I got 9 hours left. My commute to and from work is roughly an hour. I’m now down to 8. By the time I shower/play Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook/check Twitter/read blogs/respond to emails/eat/study/write my own blog/work on my side hustle…tomorrow has arrived. And it’s time to do it all over again.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I refuse to spend even one hour of my day with someone I cannot stand. Life is way too short for that. I truly believe that time is the only real currency we have because we exchange it for everything else in this life. I cannot be fully present to the present if I’m bitching about just how much I can’t stand someone now can I? Besides the less time I spend with people who rub me the wrong way..is the more time I have for the people who matter.

So tell me…how are you using your 24 hours? Are you robbing yourself of even a moment of happiness doing something, spending time with someone…living a life that is not your best life? Or are you living authentically?

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I’m participating in BlogHer’s NaBloPoMo Challenge for the month of December:

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You can read some awesome entries here: NaBloPoMo December.

I choose…

September has been quite a month thus far. I went back and forth between wanting to post an update and or just leaving it to roll-over to October. But then I found the perfect poster that sums up my September journey thus far:

What truly matters

TIME spelt another way is LOVE.

Life is short.

I choose how I use my time.

I choose what I focus on.

I choose Love.

Every.

Time.

Look out for my next update on October 15th. To read updates from other bloggers click here!

Live good & Love hard

I witnessed a drowning yesterday.

It happened so quickly.

The frantic resuscitation attempts.

The Panic. The Fear. The Utter Helplessness.

The Hope. The Anger. The dull ache in my tummy.

The tears I shed for someone I did not know.

The sick feeling I still cannot shake.

My heart and prayers go out to the family and friends who now have to move on from this tragedy.

I wonder: had any of us on the beach early yesterday morning done any one thing differently, would this have still happened?

Life is what it is – a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone’s control…– Benjamin Button

Out of anyone’s control?

I struggled to find the words to express all that I’m feeling right now. I still didn’t get it right. But what I want to say is that we so often take “time” for granted…but for every one of us it is FINITE! It WILL end and it can happen in an instant.

Just Live GOOD and LOVE HARD! Make this journey worth it – that much you can control.