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Carpe Diem
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back. -Harvey Mackay
Time is one of the most precious things we have yet most days we hardly know it exists. Our days pass by without us blinking an eye. Our view time today is completely different from years ago.
Time was a new concept for the world thousands of years ago and therefore of greater importance; it was their gift from God. Time allowed them to map out constellations of stars as a calendar. They were able to determine which days of the year are better for planting and harvesting. Cooking, hunting, gathering, cleaning, and building were all done before the setting of the sun, marking the end of one day. These people used time efficiently and to their advantage, they knew their time on earth was short.
We use it, spend it, and lose it. Today, time is hardly noticed unless we are running out of......

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