Life's Clock is Ticking Away

"Each day in your life is so important. Your entire life is made up of these days, one after another.
Therefore, you should organize your life: “When I get up I’m going to do this, then next I’ll do this,
then this, this, this..”You should organize yourself. Then your life becomes useful, and you don’t
waste your time.
Organizing a balanced day is very important. If you don’t put one day together, then two days are
not together, one month is not together, one year is not together, and you finish up wasting your
entire life. That is why we need to organize our lives."
-Lama Yeshe



As I was browsing through some e-books in Buddhanet, i came across one of Lama Yeshe's works. His words slapped me awake like a charm, thank goodness.

My mom tells me i'm the least organized person she ever met. I tell myself that i'm a lousy old slob. I guess that makes one of us. Anyway, it is a fact that after my SPM, theory exams, driving tests, piano/cello tests, i have set my brain to 'lag' mode and it degenerates day to day. It really is too bad, seeing that i only have one more month to sort out my attitude before i start over in Canada.

Sometimes i wish i'm still living in the monastery. When i'm there, the rules actually protect me. I wake up early, rest early, bathe and do laundry at fixed times, and follow routines. There are time for meditation, study and relaxing. My life is fulfilled and i feel much happier than ever. At home, alas- a weak person like me gets seduced by the likes of computers, gadgets, music and games. Then i waste my time away, drifting like a body without a soul.

I wish to organize myself. These few days, i got pretty addicted to the game Pacman (which is outdated, i know) and much time i wasted from playing all day. Then at night, i feel guilty and start resenting myself. Teenagers are weird. We spend the whole daytime wandering around with nothing to do, and when night draws in, suddenly we are aware of time being wasted, then we start piling out on our work till midnight, nodding away like a fishing rod. Naturally, we study chunks between sleep, and do not have enough rest. Then, the next day we wake up with a horrible hangover. This, comes from lack of self-organizing skills.

One year=365 days (most of the time lah)
One year=12 months
One year= 52 weeks
One month= 31 days
One week=7 days.
1 day=24 hours
1 hour=60 minutes

ARGH! Time does pass so fast. WE think we're so smart, accomplishing a bit of this and that. but actually, when you ask yourself at the end of the day "How much have i done?", you probably will have to tell yourself "Wait ah, i recall..."

That's uncertainty.

So let's stop wastin' time!!!! Make good use of that healthy young brain, before you have trouble remembering your birth date. That, will be a little too late to regret.