I grew up in what I believe to be the most amazing city If you haven't been here, it's such a pity I was born in Bombay All along, and to this day Distance is measured rather uniquely It's only an estimate and cannot be done precisely While the rest of the country and the world have definite units I think we are the wisest of them all; please hear my two bits While the remainder of our country measures distance in kilometers On the most expensive currency, we prefer to run our meter Don't believe me? Ask anyone in Mumbai how far is a place In approximate minutes, their reply they will base Sure, it's a fast paced city, but we've got it right Because we run on deadlines that are tight Time is the most expensive currency in the world And that is what I recently realized and learned Once you begin to count your time as currency That's when you'll yearn for more and begin to spend it wisely But this currency is rather unique Limited to single usage with no tweaks At least with money, you can probably earn it back But wasted time never stops or returns to those tracks Although people say time is money Time is actually more valuable than any currency So, if you waste your time, that's part of your life your'e never getting back You cannot purchase, earn, accrue, create, or distribute time; that's quite a drawback Even the richest or the most intelligent person cannot buy back this commodity Irrespective of gender, social, racial, economic status, it is distributed unto all, equally Time bows down to no man It's circle is elite, and no other is part of this clan Always value the people who give you their time It's a portion of their life, far more valuable than dimes In that sense, nobody really is too busy It just depends upon the number of your priority Since time is far more valuable than money People will only spend it on someone worth their pennies Time is also relative; and this is absolutely true When your'e broke or miserable, time is all you've got to do But, even then, if you use it wisely Things can eventually turn around nicely As significant as it may be, you must not overvalue time Because some things are meant to be experienced in your prime Likewise, what is the value of money if you're left with no time? Planning, scheming, and forecasting without a proper mealtime Value your time; value your money But at the end of the day, nobody wants to feel lonely Everyone wants to spend their time with worthy company Because love, peace, and joy are worth far more than this currency
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Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA 
You are elegant in the picture little sister. I would love to visit India someday
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Awesome post on time and its significance Ruelha
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“Currency is a medium of exchange for goods and services.”
Hehe Dear Rue in a Culture of one i Skip the Medium
And go Straight to Love For Currency,
Pay Rate, and Pay Grade Now It
Used to be So Very Different Yes,
Yes, Oh Lord The Golden Handcuffs
of the Promise of Federal Government
Benefits The Struggle All About Money to
Get to Three Last Highest Pay Grade and
Rate Years for the Pay-Off in Highest Average
Life Long Benefits This Way The Lifelong Race
Is ‘Own’ As Money Builds A Future Alone it Seems
Then Yet Oh Lord Yes in the Last 5 Years of a Quarter
of A Century in Federal Employment Five Job Changes
In Return For Double My Pay in those Last 5 Years Moving
From Bowling Center Manager, to Print Manager Assisting
A Captain Approving Print Jobs For the Biggest Area Naval Installation
Traveling 70 Miles or So Round Trip to Commute There Then Another
Temporary Promotion to Community Activities Director, Then Athletic Director,
Then Recreation Programs Director, So i Had to Keep Up With 5 Jobs in 5 Years
i Was Really Playing
Imposter As i Really
Wasn’t Qualified For
Any of the Jobs i Was Paid
To Do i Was Considered A Vital
And Valuable Commodity For
My Work Ethic And Developed
Information Technology and
Financial Management Skills
In Areas of Responsibilities that
Had Nothing to Do When the Jobs
i Was Paid For Were Just Collateral
Duties That Again i Wasn’t Really Qualified to do…
Yet i had No Choice Through a Reduction in Force
i Had no Choice Yet to Continue to Get Temporary Promoted
To Keep A Job and As the Story Goes it Drove me Slowly to HeLL
ON EartH for 66 Months From Wake to Sleep Yet Hey i got to Retire
Early at Age 47 And Officially At age 49 When All my Annual And Sick
Leave Ran Out in A Year and a Half of that Status Active in the End
Big Money Rules the World Yet Love is The Currency, Pay Rate,
And Pay Grade That is Truly Beyond All Deadlines That
Kneel and Bow to the God of Money, The Currency
Required to Exchange Goods For Services
Without That Requirement Time
Wears Wings With No
Deadlines Just
An Endless Spiral
Yes Inhaling Peace
Exhaling Love For Those
Who Do Free Themselves
From CLocK Life Yes With an
Emphasis on the Lock in CLocK
Yet It’s True the Millennial Generation
Is Assessed As the Generation of Having
Enough of Money as A God And Moving on
To Greener Pastures No Longer A Slave to the God
of Money Where Deadlines Exist to Make Enough to Survive…
In Our Country 40 Percent of Folks Making over 100,000 Dollars
A Year Through Upper Middle Class Still Live Paycheck to Paycheck
As They’ve Drank The Kool-Aid of the American Dream of Live a Life of
Buy and Spend
To the Limit
of Never Now
Becoming Free
With Wings From
The Big Money That
Drives Western Civilizations
Out of Balance With Nature
And Sadly Out of Balance With
Human Nature in NDD, Nature Deficit
Disorder More Than ever before Cold
Cogs in A Machine Until Freedom With Wings
Finally Comes…
Without Deadlines
And Locks in
CLocKS
Ruling the
Eternal Now
From Coming For Real Now…
Theme Song for this is “Big
Money” By ‘Rush’ And Nope, No
Big Money God For me Anymore TG…
Yet of Course So Many Folks Live Hand to
Mouth Around the World Where Starvation is the Price
Oh Lord The First World Problems Where Ironically Suicides
Are the Highest With Most Mental Illness As Even The Starving
Still Smile…
And Share
A Currency
Pay Rate
And Pay Grade
to the Last Breath Of Love
Indeed Reality is Very Relative This way…
‘Big Money’, Big Money, Big Money Go Away And Don’t Come Back…:)
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Great time and pls read the post by Ruelha… time is good reading!
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Beautiful picture
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