THE TIME BANK
 

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each
morning with $86,400, carries over no balance from day to
day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening
cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use
during the day.

What would you do?  Draw out every cent, of course!

Well, everyone has such a bank.   Its name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.  Every
night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have
failed to invest to good purpose.  It carries over no
balance.  It allows no overdraft.

Each day it opens a new account for you.  Each night it
burns the records of the day.  If you fail to use the day's
deposits,  the loss is yours.  There is no going back.  There
is no drawing against the "tomorrow".

You must live in the present on today's deposits.  Invest it
so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running.

Make the most of today.  To realize the value of ONE YEAR,
ask a student who has failed his exam.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH,  ask a mother who has
given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK,  ask an editor of a weekly
newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE DAY,  ask a daily wage laborer who
has ten kids to feed.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR,  ask the lovers who are
waiting to meet or . . .

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,  ask a person who has
missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND,  ask a person who has
survived an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND,  ask the person who
has won a silver medal in Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have!   And treasure
it more because you shared it with someone special.. special
enough to have your time...and remember time waits for no
one...
 

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