How Long Have You Got?

Time is a tricky beast. When you are waiting for something it seems to drag by, every second a minute, every minute an hour. When you are doing something you enjoy it seems to go as fast as a Formula One car. We are all on a ticking clock, a countdown to the Big D - "The only certainties in life are death and taxes" as they say.

For me, I try to think of the moment; to live in the moment and to try to enjoy that moment followed by the next. Don't worry what the next moment brings, just deal with it whatever happens. I don't mean that I live in the moment and exclude thinking about what could happen in the future or what has happened in the past, just that I reflect on the past and try not to worry about the future such that it spoils my enjoyment of the moment.
I don't always succeed; the big worry for me is a water leak. This may sound a little strange, but if something breaks it usually means it just stops working. With water leaks you can't stop it causing more damage. I worry that I can do nothing about it while things just keep getting worse and the worry grows to an obsession stifling enjoyment in everything else you do.

It is unlikely that I will ever be able to stop worrying about all sorts of things, but I will try to reduce its affect on my mood and happiness. I once did a Personal Development course that included material from Brian Tracey (can't remember if he is Canadian or USA) where he stated that research had been done that 96% of the things we worry about NEVER HAPPENED. Of the remaining 4%, they were mostly trivial or things we could do nothing about anyway.

I would love to spend more time taking photographs, editing them and looking at photos taken by other people, but I don't think there will ever be enough time for this. All I can do is make sure that I don't spend too long doing the things I don't like or don't provide fulfilment or happiness (e.g. work). I don't want to reach the point of the Big D and say "I wish I had spent less time at the office and more doing the things I liked to do"