Have you noticed how time flies by?

How fast a week passes by.

How fast a month passes by.

How fast a year passes by.

There’s a famous saying that goes “The days are long but the years are short.”

It makes me become melancholic.

Melancholic enough to re-evaluate what I focus my energy on and my time with.

Melancholic enough to be more selective.

Too often, we simply live day by day unconsciously.

We get up, go to work, go home, eat, and go to bed.

A lot are repeating this pattern day by day.

There is nothing wrong with it as long as it makes you feel good.

But more and more people realize that this feels more like a hamster wheel.

A hamster wheel of habit, boredom and sometimes fatigue.

There’s a longing. A longing for more freedom. A longing to spend time with what we really love.

Again, there’s often the next question people ask themselves.

“What do I really love?”

A lot of people were conditioned to believe they have to choose a stable job in an office.

A lot of people were conditioned to believe they have to adapt and behave.

A lot of people were conditioned to believe they are limited.

But is this really true or is this merely a belief?

Anyway, as I’m sitting here in Bali, enjoying a moment by the beach and trying to slow down, I realize even more how precious this moment is. To just be here. To just sit. To just have a quiet moment with yourself. Not having to do anything. Not having to achieve anything. Not having to prove anything. Not having to acquire anything. Just be in this moment.

And I realize it’s enough.

We sometimes make life incredibly complicated. We overcomplicate things. We overanalyze. W overthink. It brings us out of the natural flow. 

In this world that is full of stimulation, competition and trying to overachieve, it’s paramount to slow down. To evaluate what is really important. To ask ourselves: Is this really me?

Because this life is not forever. One day we may be full of regret having spent years with overanalysing, overthinking or even competing.

Here in this quiet moment I realize, there’s nothing to analyze. Nothing to think about. Nothing to compete with. When you observe the ocean, you can learn a lot from the waves. The waves just go with the flow. They rise and they fall so naturally they don’t even have to think or try hard. Nor compete with other waves. They are simply an expression of the ocean. Not more and not less.

They are not separate from the other waves, merely a different expression.

One wave is not better than the other, as in the end, they’re all just water.

Could it be the same for us humans?

In the end, we’re all just energy. Having a human experience. Spending moment by moment which someone once called time.

What is time anyway?

Some argue time doesn’t even exist.

Who knows.

May each one define time in their own way.

The most important question, however, is, what do you spend your time on?