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Time and Things

November 5, 2018
By talianicole21 SILVER, San Jacinto, California
talianicole21 SILVER, San Jacinto, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Happiness can be found even in the darkness of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." -Album Dumbledore 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'


Money, things, and things

Why do we spend so much of our time focused on things?

Our precious, precious time

Our precious time washed away

It's a river of time

That is going so fast,

Crashing into rocks and trees. 

Taking all of our hopes and dreams. 

We will never catch up.

However, instead, we will waste 

We will waste the time we have. 

We will waste our time with useless things:

Buying clothes we will only wear once,

We spend our time wanting other peoples things

Why can’t we ever be happy

Why can’t we ever be content

with our things we have

We have a family,

We have friends.

Why do we need all of these worthless things?


The author's comments:

Recently, someone at my school passed away. I didn't know her, I talked to her maybe twice, but it got me thinking: why do we invest so much of our time on things that don't even matter. We aren't able to take the nice clothes we have, the jewelry, or any of the things we have on Earth with us when we die, so why do we obsess ourselves with having the best of everything. When all we can take with us is what we have learned and hope to see our families and friends again on the other side. This is something that has been on my mind a lot lately and I hope that this will get you thinking about how you are spending your time. 


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