The Most Valuable
In our age, time is the most valuable thing, because it can’t be bought, nor can you take a step back in time. It is a limited consumable; with every passing second, you are losing a fraction of your time.
People tend not to care about their time and waste a lot of it doing nothing or doing things that are not helpful and do not make the person happy. That’s a huge problem, because time can’t be restored, and we need to devote every second to doing something that makes us happy or benefits us.
There are a lot of traditions that honor the past and celebrate what the people whose time has ended did to create the future. In my culture, we honor our past with certain events where we wear clothes that resemble how the people from the past used to dress or make the food that they used to make. Since most of our past is related to our religion, we also go to the mosque to pray. In these ways, people make sure that the past will never be forgotten.
Preparing for the future is a responsibility all of us share, because we are the ones who shape how those after us are going to live. We tend to do that by succeeding in life and making peace so that those after us will have an easier way to live.
I think time is a lesson in life, something that teaches us to keep moving on, carrying every failure and every success and not looking back. There is no use in trying to fix the past, and it will only hurt more if we don’t understand the lessons of life and keep trying to fix it. The only thing that we can do is to learn from that past and build the future.
“Seize the day, then let it go.” - Marty Rubin
Abdullah Etan is a 16-year-old from Madaba, Jordan. In his free time, he likes to read books, play video games, and watch documentaries about myths and legends. He loves all kinds of music.