A bank called Time.

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with 86,400 dollars. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening, the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent of course! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night, it writes... off as lost whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day, it opens a new account for you. Each night, it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposit, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow". You must live in the present on today's deposit. Invest it so as to get the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today!! -Unknown Author

I  recently read the above, on a friends status update on facebook that he had stolen from someone or somewhere else.  It had such purpose and meaning behind it that I had to share it!  

Everyone can not deny that one can never seem to have enough money, unless you are filthy rich I suppose. There have been 'Happiness studies' that indicate that no matter where one lies on the spectrum of how much wealth you have, the majority of people state that they would be happier with at least 10 percent more money that they currently have.  People in the world today are becoming greedier by the day it seems. No one likes to waste their money.  Though even if they do, it's likely that the next day or next time the bills are do they wish they hadn't bought that 50th pair of shoe or been a little too generous with their money to a friend. Money counts in the world today, but what about time?

It seems that people often value time less than they value money. Yes, the saying 'time is money' holds true in most cases and is still being recited all over the world, but the saying usually holds true in short term cases like a job. What happens when you first wake up in the morning before work or school though, and when you get home? How do you spend your weekends, your free time? It seems to me that people value their time less and less in the U.S.  You come home from work to watch your new series on t.v., check your email, facebook, twitter and blogs for a few hours, spend your weekends going out and drinking too much, or maybe you go to the beach to relax. Would you spend it the same if you knew it was going to be the last weekend you were to be alive? Would you spend time arguing with friends and loved ones? What about worrying about the future or your job as much? 

The answer is probably no right? So why do we spend our lives letting time pass by our eyes as though we have a thousand years to live. Even if you do live to be 100 years or older, wouldn't you want to die knowing that you spent every minute doing something that made you feel happy and content with who you are as a person and why God or the Universe created you?

Let every minute of this day be spent doing something that you will benefit from and which makes you happy!