one week

1 week. 7 days. 168 hours. 10,080 minutes. 604,800 seconds. They're all synonymous, and a lot can change in one week.

In a week you can go from being in a relationship to single. In a week you could lose your grandmother. In a week two sports you play could simultaneously come to an end. In a week you can lose a lot. 


And that, right there, is the problem with time. Usually when we talk about time we talk about how long it is until something ends. That is just our natural way of doing it. In almost all sports the clock counts down to zero.

I feel like when we measure time we always have such a negative connotation with it. "Oh, I have to get this done by ____," or "I only have _____ days left." Those just carry a negative vibe.

Instead of referring to time as an expiration of sorts why don't we instead think of it as a beginning? I have exactly six weeks until I leave for college and that means I have 60,480 minutes to get all of my high school living out. In six weeks time it isn't the end of something, rather it marks the beginning. In six weeks I have another fifteen weeks to live out my first semester. Notice I didn't say until my first semester ends?

As I mentioned before you can lose a lot in a week, but you can also get a hell of a lot done. 

A week of talking to someone you haven't in a while can brighten your spirits. A week on vacation with your family gives you time to reconnect. A week with your best friends can leave you with memories that will last a lifetime. 


The idea of our lifetime is probably the most complex concept of time. At what point do we start dying? When we're born do we have a set expiration date and based on our lifestyles and actions that date can come sooner or later? Do we start dying after fifty? 


When I say dying i don't mean we become ill. Rather, I mean what stage of our life do we stop growing up and start growing old? When do we cross the line from living to dying? 


It's strange if you take a second to think about it. Imagine when you're born if you were told you have 90 years, 3 months, and 15 days. At the moment of birth you, in a sense, would be dying. Your time would slowly be going down. 


Maybe I'm far off on this or maybe this actually makes sense. 


Cliche saying time, "Get busy living, or get busy dying." 


Life is a mere chance to live, it's not written in stone that you'll actually do it. 


NP: No Lie- 2 Chainz ft. Drake