‘The gift of time’

Dear Editor:

Creation has given us many gifts. One of these gifts is the gift of time. Maybe the reason we waste so much of it is because it’s free.

If we live to be 75 and sleep eight hours per night, we’ve slept away 25 years of the gift. If you go to a job every day that you don’t enjoy strictly for the material gain, you’ve wasted another 12.5 years of the gift. Try to find something you enjoy and have an ability for and live within the means this provides. We don’t need a mansion, you can only live in one room at a time.

The creation has provided many other gifts to mankind but our insatiable thirst for material goods stops us from appreciating them.

The creation, whether animate or inanimate – big bang theory, UFOs, God, Buddah or whatever – who cares? The gifts have been given and no great saviour will ever materialize to save us from destroying these gifts. That’s mankind’s work and we should start doing our job.

Don’t keep looking for utopia; all the gifts that we need are already here to make utopia. It’s mankind’s choice, no one else’s. It’s about time we started making better choices.

Bob Walker,
Fergus