WHAT TIME IS IT, ANYWAY?
My favorite clock quit
working one day. Just up and stopped telling time. Actually, when
the time changed from Daylight Savings Time back to Pacific Standard
Time and I went to set it back an hour, the hands refused to be
moved. Since I was in the habit of glancing at it for the time
as I walked by, I immediately wanted to take it somewhere for
repairs. There wasn't a clock repair shop in the small town where
I lived, however, and I kept putting off driving to the next larger
town to have the work done.
Months went by and I found that I got along just fine without
the clock to tell me what time it was. This got me to thinking
about time and timing. Sometimes I want something to happen according
to my timing - like right now! My strong Leo personality wants
what it wants when it wants it, usually. Sound familiar to you
Leonine types out there? Or, perhaps I was a lawyer in a former
life and the phrase "Time is of the essence" got permanently
etched into my brain?
What I've learned, however, is that while my time might be considered
my own, it doesn't automatically follow that my timing is someone
else's timing. Just because I feel a need to talk to someone about
a problem, for instance, doesn’t mean that their internal
clock is set to hear me at that given moment in time. Their time
for "hearing" may be different than my time for "speaking"
and that in itself can become a problem.
It would be wonderful if our internal clocks could always be in
sync with the internal clocks of our friends, our spouses, our
loved ones and our co-workers, but that isn't likely to be the
case. It would make relationships so much easier if we had "meetings
of the mind" like that, but this is real life we're talking
about here, and reality doesn’t always run smoothly just
like my electric clock didn't always run the way I wanted it to.
Timing is the key. It takes a keen sense of awareness to recognize
the importance of when the timing is right to accomplish the movement
we need in our emotional lives. Which brings to mind the metaphysical
law of timing, which says that "Everything is in its proper
place and everything is on time."
Written by: Darlene Eberhardt,
May 8, 1993
