Making Time

Time is a fleeting abstract. No matter what our social status, or where we fall in the food chain, man or animal, we all have 1440 minutes to our 24 hour day. That's 86,400 seconds if you happen to be in a time crunch. It's quite spectacular how quickly those 86,400 ticks go by, and then we start with a new clock the very next tick. It never goes to 86,401. During this race with the clock, we happen to slow down long enough to form relationships. I caught sight of a picture today of my grandmother and oldest daughter. It took me back for a second. At that very moment, those few ticks of the clock, I realized I miss her company. She's been gone for over two years now. Then it made me think about my grandfather and the memorable times with him. I miss him also. When they happened to still be roaming the earth, I would 'make time' to go visit, take the kids over, drink stronger than normal coffee, discuss their aches and pains (real or otherwise), and just enjoy a few hundred of my allotted minutes of my day and theirs. Since children have arrived in my life, it seems I have to cram more activities into a day. So my life, as is many common folk, feel that life is hectic and always busy. So the term, 'making time', does not mean you have the ability to manufacture that extra second at the end of your day (unless you're playing Nebraska for the Big 12 title). What that means is, you have to steal some minutes, or even seconds, from something else. So previous plans are going to be deficient of the time you've originally set aside. That could appear as neglect to some, multitasking to others. Since my grandparents have passed, my life hasn't slowed down. I still seem busier than ever. This led me to think about how my relationship with them would be if they were still here. Would I have as much time to spend with them as before? If my life were so busy, would our relationship suffer? Would they understand? I can only speculate, but I feel I would have foregone sleep, if necessary, to enjoy a few hundred minutes to spend with them from time to time.