Time And Motivation

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Everyone has a different option about time. Everyone has their own concept of time. I seem to have two concepts of time: I believe in the old saying, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” My fun time or magic time is when I’m on the soccer field. Soccer is my one and only passion; when I am playing the time seems to fly by. Although when I am waiting for the whistle to blow to start the game time seems to stand still. This is the same time concept as in the book, Just A Minute, written by Leonore Klein. In which she states,

“Time becomes meaningful not only in terms of how it
is put to use and the relationship of seconds to minutes, to
hours, to days, to months, and to years, but also
in terms of its relativity. Some hours rush by in a minute.
An hour of playing does that. But when you wait an hour
for Dad to come home, it seems like a day, doesn’t it?”

Everyone has a moment in their life in which they wish they could have frozen time. It reminds me of a song by Jim Croce, “Time in a Bottle.”

Time in a Bottle
“If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do…”

He is saying there never seems to be enough time in one day to accomplish everything you wished to for that day. So instead he wishes he could just bottle up the good times and save them to spend them with a special person.
The time of my life in which I wished I could have frozen in a bottle, is the week of my high school graduation. I spent four years learning and building friendships that would last a life time and that final week seemed to fly by. Now that high school is over and I’m in co...