How to Bless Others With Your Time

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it present" - Master Oogway

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Addison Collingsworth
October 18, 2024

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A black and white photo of a father and son shot from behind and holding hands as they walk down a road in a rural setting with trees on the side of the road.

Dad and son walking on a path.
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

With Halloween decorations springing up everywhere and the end of October approaching, I’ve been reflecting on what is truly scary. Not ghost stories or horror movies, but the real things that keep people up at night: rejection, fear of not being enough, failure, money problems, strained relationships, and more.

I think the biggest boogeyman that adults face is time. As I’ve written about before, time is the ultimate villain in most of our lives. It’s the subtle framework behind our decisions, whether we realize it or not.

Lately, I’ve been asking myself, how do we practically deal with time so it doesn’t become the boogeyman of our lives? How do we focus on using our time for the right things, especially when balancing time between our responsibilities and relationships?

That answer came to me on a cold Friday afternoon standing on a sidewalk with my son and a man named Tyre.

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