The Sunday News
Carl Tanyaradzwa Maswoswa
MANY a time, we have been caught unaware by the decisions we have made; whether we jumped a process or took a short-cut to arrive were we desired to be.
In the façade of trying to provide, be successful, get ahead; life or career wise, we often think since time is an invaluable resource — it sits freely at our mercy. If we lived life and made decisions knowing anytime it could be a different story, then we would be better people. Decisions made in man’s time always seem to haunt us one way or the other, as compared to decisions made in the consciousness of God’s time. Many are the thoughts and plans of man, but God’s will prevail.
You will say;
I will do that task at my own time,
It is not yet time to be saved,
I am in the prime of my life now, l need to enjoy life,
I have all the time in the world, why worry,
I have to focus on my dreams or work; l will spend time with my kids or parents next month or year.
The true reality is, you don’t have the time you think you have, if you choose to procrastinate and postpone some of the important things in your life — time will humble you. The universe has endowed you with precious resources, time being the first; what you have to know is that your time is particularly not different from the sand in the hour glass. Once it runs out that is the end of you. We live in a generation driven by comments and likes on social media, where trending is new hype that you are living life. The young at heart feel invalidated, when you see success on social media,you think you are not doing your best. Half-baked and pressurized decisions are made unconscious of the implications time will have on them later.
The trauma you are facing today, an event might have happened to you; a loved one died early, disability came, “when I am in the prime of my life” virus infected you, you did not spend time with your kids now their waywardness reveals your lack of parenting, that business venture deal you just signed without praying has made you bankrupt to the extent of being put behind prison bars — then you think, “if l had invested time with my kids or loved one” when its already too late. Time has its way of humbling us, thus the need to always check our actions if they are in sync with our maker.
Are you grateful?
Have you been kind enough?
Are you loving the people around you right?
Did you see someone at their point of need and assisted them?
Are you conscious of the time you spend on your dream or work, are you spending the same time with your family or loved one?
Societal problems we face today, lies on the fact that someone has bitterness or anger towards what their parents did to them; they were not available for them and that led them to drugs. That church believer is angry, you were not available when their loved one died, when in turn they were pouring their all in church including their time, that businessman has a scar because they did not do due diligence towards that business venture because time seemed not to be on their side (they just dived without looking at the risks involved), that lover you spent 4 years with just broke up with you and you have to start over — you have vowed to make the society an instrument to feel your wrath.
Whilst other factors come into play; our choices and decisions are rendered useless if we make choices without the undiluted consciousness that time will humble us. Should this attitude be engraved in your approach; you will move with life like nothing matters than to do your all, knowing tomorrow is not guaranteed. It may sound like cliché, but imagine all the dreams and visions came to you and said, “we came to you to give us life but what did you do?”, you abused us — we gave you time to compensate for your mistakes, but you still denied us the chance.
It is a sad reality that destinies are truncated at their prime, unfortunately I had the opportunity to interact and converse with some bright young minds that are no longer with us today. It is evident time and God happen to all, it is up to you to have a closer and intimate relationship with them. I have spoken to some bright minds that l could see; stars gazed at their bright destinies, heartbreakingly they could not live to tell the story. Blessing had all the right structures and dreams to implement, when he spoke, you could tell if he came into power things would change, alas he did not work on those dreams because he thought he had time. The doctor diagnosed him of blood cancer many years later and he had been given a prognosis of 2 to 3 months to live. All the intellect and ideas died with him few weeks later.
You may be a victim today, you are not investing properly into your relationships, spirit, family, dreams and desires — you think you will make time for it later. What if the time in your account is depleted, such that what you have now is a day, two months, one year or even a minute, will you be proud of how you have allocated and spent your time? If you do not create time for the things you desire or have, time will humble you. ‘If I had known ‘,will be an irrelevant phenomenon.
l Carl Tanyaradzwa Maswoswa is the founder of a coaching and mentoring club at the National University of Science and Technology in partnership with International Coaching and Mentoring Foundation. Carl also has a slot on Skyz Metro FM Radio in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe as a resource person delivering presentations every Tuesday (Drive-Time) between 16.00 to 17.00 Central African Time (CAT) touching on all things on self-development.
