Tick-Tock Says the Clock

I feel time – its passage and its value – more strongly lately.

I guess it comes with age.

If I am blessed to live to a strong 70 years, this year would spot on be my half-age. The usual mid-life crisis.

I am attuned to how far I’ve come, and it’s also glaringly obvious how nowhere near I’m supposed to go.

Like how I have gotten used to doing, I focus on the half-full. I magnify the breakthroughs, the barely theres, the surviving. And I try not to cry over the passed bys, the forgotten, the nowhere-near-finishing. The might-have beens, those are the ones that are most painful.

Sometimes I feel I am exactly where I should be. And yet I can’t help but glance back and try to look forward, the indecision and haziness of the future scaring me.

Yet I remind myself God is in full control of my life, that I am exactly where I should be.
And I pray.
And then it happens. That five-minute calm, that clarity, that serenity, that peace.
I feel I am exactly where I should be.

I feel time – its passage and its value – more strongly lately.
And like how I have gotten used to doing, I focus on the half-full.

I feel time, how it’s sweeping, racing and slow at the time. I panic most of the times, I get sad, wistful, hopeful.
But like how I have gotten used to doing, I focus on the half-full.
More intention. More value. Even with less time.

I am exactly where I should be.

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Aggie Aviso

Aggie Aviso describes herself as her family’s storyteller and memory keeper. A mom to two kids ages 14 and 8, she is certainly past the age of sleepless nights and adorable pigtails. However, motherhood stays exciting, more meaningful and yes, more challenging. She takes it all in stride, knowing fully well that moments pass by in a blink of an eye. As Gretchen Rubin famously said, “The days are long, but the years are short.” She has discovered how wonderful it is to have those fleeting moments in time documented in their family books and has made it her personal mission and passion to be able to tell their stories for her future grandkids. You can read more about her here.. Subscribe to blog updates and the occasional letter here.

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