Lesson #11: There's always enough time

I hardly ever say that I'm too busy, or that I don't have enough time. Whenever people say that to me, I always tell them this fun story.

Back when I was a junior in high school, I was sitting in my advisory class, with one of my best friends sitting directly behind me.She wasn't in the best mood, telling me that she had so much work to do over the weekend, and that it wasn't possible to finish it all. I told her, "You have all weekend, that's 48 hours. You have enough time." My friend then exclaimed to me, "48 hours isn't enough time!" The teacher in that class overhead our conversation and approached us and said, "48 hours isn't enough time? Jack Bauer can save the world twice in 48 hours. He can stop two terrorist attacks in 48 hours." Ever since then, I've never complained about not having enough time.

Being a big basketball fan, and just being a big sports fan in general, I've learned to make the most of each minute. I remember one time trying to tell a group of my friends something, and, assuming that I was going to talk about basketball, they started teasing me. One of them thought I was going to say something like, "In basketball, five minutes is an eternity." While I wasn't going to say anything about basketball in general, I couldn't help but think, Yeah, that's true! In sports, a couple minutes, or even a couple seconds, can last forever. That's not because of all the time-outs called (well, actually it is) but because so much can be done in such a short little time. The average NBA team averaged about 100 points a game, but we can't forget, it only takes about 1/2 second to score a point! It's just about using our time wisely, and not falling into the mental pit of thinking that we have less time than we actually do.

Why we tend to feel at a crunch for time is that because we don't allocate our time properly. There's plenty of time to do stuff if we make it! I was watching a video of Bill Cosby on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and something he said stood out to me. When Johnny remarked at how Bill Cosby is always busy, he replied with, "You got plenty of time to rest when you're dead." Hence, I always find there to be enough time.