I've always been quite fond of the saying, "Time heals all wounds." I remember thinking, "That's so right, it'll all get better with time. Yeah, I just need time." However, I recently realized that those thoughts translated into this, "Yeah, I'll just sit on my ass and wait for all these bad feelings and troubling situations to go away. I'll just watch videos on YouTube until time comes to the rescue."
That quote makes Time out to be some unfailing hero. In reality, isn't time our biggest enemy? It kills - literally. It withers your body and weakens your mind. It's the cause of all rash decisions whose justifications ended with "I don't have all the time in the world." I hate time. It's like I just ended a friendship with someone I loved and now the relationship has turned into one of complete spite. It's a draining concept and whoever the hell said that in the end, the race is only with yourself is insane. You're racing time. Every day. Every second. And the sad truth is that Time will always win.
I know what you're all thinking - without time, we'd all be complacent, never feeling the need to do anything better because, well, we have all the time in the world. That fact does not make me want to forgive time. It doesn't make me want to walk arm-in-arm with it down the path of life. What time does remind me of though, is your equivalent of the arch nemesis, aka - your biggest competitor. We all have that one person in our lives we want to outdo - whether it be for our own pride or purely just out of spite. Regardless of the reason, they're the person that pushes us to achieve more - not in the nice "I've got your back" way, but in the "I will put you to shame if you don't accomplish this" way. Whatever, right? A push is a push. And a push in the right direction with bad attentions is still a push in the right direction.
Will Time and I ever reconcile our differences and get back to the loving relationship we had before? I have no idea, but I sure hope so. It's better to be friends with someone you know you can never beat than to be their enemy.
