Short Story -15 - Special Bank Account

 

Short Story -15 - Special Bank Account

Assume you had a bank account that received a deposit of $86,400 every morning. The account does not carry over any balance from day to day, does not allow you to keep any cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever portion of the amount you did not use throughout the day. What would your reaction be? Every day, take out every dime!

We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it grants you 86,400 seconds. Every night, it records as lost whatever time you haven't used wisely. It does not carry over any balance from day to day. It does not allow overdrafts, so you cannot borrow against yourself or spend more time than you have. Every day, the account is reset. Every night, it obliterates an unused time. If you don't use the day's deposits, it's your loss, and you can't get it back.

There is never a time when you can borrow something. You cannot take out a loan on your own time or against the time of another person. The time you have is the time you have, and that is all there is to it. Time management is yours to decide how you spend your time, just as money management is yours to select how you spend your money. It is never a matter of not having enough time to do things; rather, it is a matter of whether we want to do them and where they fall on our priority list.