I’m writing this as a small reminder to myself of the time contingency of things. If that sounds a little vague or muddled, it’s because I’m writing it slightly more in a rush compared to my other posts.
Why? Partly it’s because of the topic that we’re discussing today: the idea of opportune time. We’ve talked about this before: there’s a time and a place for everything, and sometimes things have to happen in the correct order in order for them to work well.
The example I gave at that time was writing these posts. If I don’t sit down and make an effort to crank something out, then it’s just not going to happen – the same thing happened yesterday, despite the fact that I had an abundance of ideas swimming in and out of my mind. I told myself this could be a good blog post and could be nice, but at the end of the day, I ended up failing.
Now, I’m not saying that I let failures like that define me, because really, who even reads this blog? (Sorry if you were insulted haha – thank you for reading!)The default setting on life is off, and the default answer of the universe is no.
What do we say to the god of death? No.
Will you automatically become a millionaire? No.
Will this blog post write itself? No.
The universe is cold in that way.
I’m not saying that writing isn’t something that I like doing because it really is.
It’s just that if the conditions are not there, then the post won’t come into existence.
By a similar token many other things may not come into existence as well if you just don’t pay attention. That is the rule, not the exception.
Pardon my self-indulgence, but… Out of the morass of nothing, we retrieve something whenever we create. Grasping while creating a structure that, depending on your belief system, had always existed, was never there before, or finally is coterminous with the act of creation, amongst a list of non-exhaustive possibilities.
The reason for a rush is that it’s an outshoot of my personality. I suppose it is the part of me that wants to have things happen more quickly than they otherwise should be able to. The impatient me who cannot see the long game, even as it is playing out, but also the part of me that naturally moves forward, opening itself up like a flower, like a flower responds to light or perhaps water in some way.
Anyway, that is enough babbling.
What I will say is this: in life, nothing is guaranteed, so make use of every single moment to fulfill your potential and unfold.
There is much more for you out there, both within and without.
It is time to receive it.
