Time is thinning

Time moves silently along the eternal earth and sky. Everything used to calculate time has its age and waits for no one. People still remind each other to finish this and that, or else there will be no more time…

There are many concepts of time, such as cosmic time, physical time, time in literature, art, etc. What people often mention is the limited time for each task, each person. Human life is just a short period of time, like a horse's hoof passing through the window, suddenly disappearing, never to return, difficult to hold on to.

The day before Tet, with some old friends, we sat in a cafe on a familiar street corner, looking at the streams of people and vehicles, clearly feeling the last days of the year, everyone was in a hurry as if wanting to seize the time so that everything would be perfect and neat before a new year. I arrived a little late compared to the appointment, my friend Lam reminded me: "We need to go with time, not let time pass by" which he learned when he was an international student in Germany. The older we get, the more we cherish time, we were startled: "A year has passed by so quickly" and were startled again by the impermanence of human life "A hundred years in the blink of an eye, my friend. So we are older than "thất thập cổ lai hy" (old age of seventy), right?

In the early days of spring, we sat together again. Looking back at each passing hour, each passing minute, with the feelings that lingered in each heart, all the emotions that we sent with our cups of coffee were under the "shadow of time". Time is not only calculated by years, months, seasons, weather, morning, afternoon, evening, but also expressed in patches of sunlight, wind, dew drops, smoke; fallen leaves, silver hair... Accompanying time are moods, happy and sad emotions about the time of a person's life. The most haunting thing about time for humans is probably silver hair. Everyone says that sometimes seeing a lot of silver hair makes you sad, feeling the pressure of time weighs heavily on you.

In the three dimensions of time - past, present and future, the most important is the present, the most attractive is the future, the richest is the past. In each of us, we all realize that our "time fortune" is not much left, so we always regret every drop of time and live with nostalgic time as a spiritual need. Everyone has very special moments that sleep in their mind, just a little bit of shaking is enough for those memories to come back, brighten up, beautifully radiant as if they had just appeared yesterday, making people want to return at all costs, live in those moments once more. And when we remember, we feel love, nostalgia, regret for a distant, old time and youth becomes the most precious moment for everyone.

I was born and raised in the midlands. Every gravel road is imprinted in my memory... The village trails, the road to school, the road up those rugged hills are now lined with ancient trees, providing shade, but the lives of villagers and families have changed, some are still alive and some are gone. The memories that we often talk about are youth, love, family, relatives, teachers, friends, and homeland. In the memories of that old village, there is a connection with the soul of the homeland, with folk culture as a spiritual support.

Tien "girl" studied Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, retired but still in charge of electricity and water for Nguyen Binh Khiem private high school, said: "Time is a fire, let's use it to warm our passion. Whoever has a talent, let's develop it, do it until your health does not allow it anymore. That is the choice of each person, for me it is a way to not waste time, prolong life". At this time, I just showed off to my friends, I also developed my professional talent in social work - working as Deputy Director in charge of communications and increasing income for "Intergenerational Self-Help Club for Economics" - a Korean model that has spread to nearly 30 countries around the world. The initial capital for poor households was sponsored by Korea.

Tran Quan, a retired reporter and announcer for the Voice of Vietnam, still writes several books about Buddhism, the most impressive to me is the one about the Buddhist Emperor Tran Nhan Tong. Every day on Facebook, he "recited" all sorts of things, saying: "Time teaches us the most clearly the values of life, so that we know how to cherish every short moment and know how to sow more simple seeds of love in our hearts. A lifetime is the life cycle or the period of human life. Understanding "human life" makes us realize that virtue will prolong life, on the contrary, life will shorten it."

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Time is the measure of success and failure, helping us balance our lives. Time is free for humans, although we cannot own it, we can use it, spend it like money. Time always treats everyone fairly, it can take this or that from someone, but it will also reward with new opportunities, we must recognize and cherish those opportunities. Understanding the value of time is necessary and important for everyone. What is important is not only the ability to feel the beauty of life, love yourself and live meaningfully, but also the ability to synchronize with time to learn for life, and become stronger every day...

Victor Hugo once said: “Life is short, why do we keep shortening it by wasting time?” Wasting time is a problem that we often face, such as not being aware of being caught up in unrelated work, which we call “busybody” (useless, long-winded, messy). For example, what is happening on social networks and in everyday life, when we make our lives complicated and tired with other people's work. For example, Facebook is a place for us to freely express our personal opinions and thoughts, everyone realizes that but sometimes we ignore the negative side and fall into that “sweet trap”. According to a study by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, people who use Facebook regularly do not feel happy, because they are frustrated. Wandering on Facebook and social networking sites, we will encounter thousands of problems every day, then let the emotions of strangers and strange communities become our own emotions and get upset over trivial things.

Time is also expressed in psychological terms - "virtual time". Time can be short or long depending on the mood of each person because it has been "internalized" as Nguyen Du wrote, "Happy days are as short as a span", sad days seem to drag on. The unit of time that Buddhists often use is a real but very short unit of time, like the blink of an eye. On spring days, looking at the blooming flowers, we see that time waits for no one and refuses no one. Only those who are passionate about life and people can prolong time, can escape the finiteness of human life. Time is an element of happiness, germinating vitality, blossoming and bearing fruit. We are learning to enjoy every sweet moment that life brings. And I suddenly remember the cherry blossoms of Japan - brilliant and fresh until the last minute, not willing to let people see their useless withered color. When realizing that the offering was nearing the end of its life cycle, it calmly followed the wind and left the branch, flying in space, offering humanity a wonderful, noble beauty.

Source: https://daidoanket.vn/thoi-gian-mong-dan-10302170.html