Time and Air.

Time is a lot like air.

Abundant yet finite. 

Invisible yet observable. 

Untouchable yet omnipresent. 

Neither seeks to be acknowledged.

Both merely wish to persist. 

As we breathe in and out with no thought about, 

we take for granted air's gift.

Until a wind gently wisps across your face

reminding you that it still exists. 

Time, too, has its own way of reminding you

that although time is here to stay, 

your own clock is tick-tick-ticking away

and will inevitably be up one day.

Each day we move through them,

they bring us change. 

A new breathe, a new moment,

yet steadfast both time and air remain. 

Take a minute today

to enjoy what you have left.

Because a time will come

when you've only one second more

as your breathe in your last breath. 

-Ryan Ward

P.S. Today is the 210th day of the year. That's 57.38% in the books. Crazy, right?! The beginning of 2024 feels simultaneously like it was yesterday, but also like several years ago. The reason I bring this up, not only because it has to do with time, but also because there is probably something you wanted to do at the start of the year, but haven't done yet. If that sounds like you, watch this.

Lesson: you can't improve something that doesn't exist. Why wait until 2025? Just start. Today. 

P.S.S. This email was an example of creating writing, which I plan to do more of. I may fully break this poem down in a future video/newsletter. But for now, here's this video explaining my thoughts on direct language vs. vivid imagery. 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday :) See you next week.