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Borrowed Time
Borrowed Time
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.”
Horace Mann
In the United States and Japan, being late is a very big deal and most people strive to be on time in order to respect the rights of others. Everyone is always on the go and there never seems to be enough time in the day to get the things done that need to be done. Generally, a carry-over to the next day just equates to more frustration and unneeded stress for most.
In certain countries like Italy and Greece, people are a little more laid back and don’t take time so serious. Being late is not that big of a deal unless you of course interfere with their break times. They just don’t seem to live by any clocks for the most part.
The concept of time for the Hopi Indian tribe in Arizona in the United States is really interesting. The Hopi Indians do not even have time in their vocabulary except for two words. One word represents “sooner” and the other represents “later”. I suppose the mentality is that sooner or later they will get there.
Most would agree that time is of the essence in most cultures today, however, I guess there is something to be said for taking life a little easier and stopping to enjoy it more often along the way! After all, we only have a finite amount of time to be late don’t we?
PRIORITIES
Priorities Of Life
” Every day, either you live by priorities or you live by pressures. There is no other option. Either you decide what is important in your life, or you let other people decide what is important in your life.”
Rick Warren “God’s Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions”
I have always said that each of us makes up our mind to do exactly what we want to do. We may say we don’t have time for this or we don’t have time for that. If we stop to really think about it, we all make up our minds to do exactly what we want to do don’t we in the end? Don’t let others pressure you in what is important to you.
TOO MUCH HOLIDAY PASTA
I just got back from a doctor visit and he informed me that my blood pressure was a little on the high side and he wants me to lose some weight. He said I had gained about 22 pounds from the first time I saw him and that taking the weight off would help to lower the pressure. I am about six feet tall and I weighed in today at 208 pounds. The doc said he wants me down to 180 pounds when I go back in two months. Twenty-eight pounds! Come on doc! How in the world am I going to do that?
He recommended that I do some stationary bike riding and get my heart rate up to about 130 beats per minute for at least 10 minutes a day. He also instructed me to watch my diet and that I need to practice an exercise called “the push away.” Push away from the table! I guess I will have to cut back on the pasta as difficult as that is going to be. That is going to be a little hard to do since my wife is half Italian and we eat a bunch of pasta around this house. Her food just tastes way too good!
I had no idea I had gained that much weight since I don’t own a scale to weigh on. I did notice that my pants have been a lot harder to get on these days. I can hide a lot of weight with my height but the pants seem to always be a tattletale on how much good food I have been packing in.
Does anyone have any good ideas for diets or ways to lose some weight before I have to go weigh in on that doctor scale in a few months? I don’t want to have to look him in the eye and say I failed miserably and ate too much pasta again. I am not exactly sure what I am going to do about my Italian wife. I am looking for any advice you can pass my way.
Tony A. Smith 