I keep being brought back to a lecture that I read by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay called “What Is Worthwhile.” Ms. Lindsay was the first female Ph.D. graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and she spoke to a graduating class in 1894.
In her lecture, she suggests that one of the things that is worthwhile to take hold of is time. Seneca also spoke of this in his essay, On The Shortness Of Life. Life and time are not equivalent. Making perfect use of time can mean that we make perfect use of our life.
How do you know you are using your time perfectly?
Interestingly, the way you know you are using time well is that you lose track of it.
Perfect moments happen when time seems to stop. All your attention is focused on now and you can’t imagine anything else. Like when you are sitting in your comfy chair with the sun looking over your shoulder, and the characters of your book leap off the page to entertain you, or not.
Perfect.
