Value of Time
 

To realise
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realise
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realise
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realise
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realise
The value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realise
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realise
The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realise
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realise
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.

To realise
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

To realise the value of a friend:
Lose one.

time is something that is important when you make it important. otherwise.. it's just fleeting moments of concurrence.

friends and family... they are always valuable to me. I stop all the time to say,"I love you and I miss you. I wish we could stop our responsibilities and get together right now"

definitly like the reflection duckznutz

a nice post duckznutz, although i think the time is just a measure of an experience. You have quantified many experiences using time, i think its the experiences that are most important. Maybe i am missing something, but i do think i understand where you're coming from. I also agree with Cynthetiq, in that its definatly more important some times when compared against others. Perhaps its just another way of saying don't take it for granted.

Last night, I lay awake in bed for 4 hours. In those 4 hours, I did nothing at all.

It got me thinking; it's incredible that we think nothing of 4 hours so wasted, but panic to save 5 minutes getting to work.
To think that that 4 hours was exactly the same time I spent at the pub the other night, when in the same time I told a dozen jokes, got a girl's number, sang a song at karaoke, and played some pool.
To think that it's the same amount of time in which I could have completed 2 short exams.

It's incredible how relative the value of time is.