One night, I complained to my mom about the lack of time. Finally she said,＂you are short of time just because you waste precious minutes on complaints and anxiety. The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can alway fit in some thing more.＂ It is the same with filling the jar. Even if you place a dozen fist-sized rocks and a bucket of gravel into the jar, there is still space for sand and water between the rocks and gravel.
The lack of time is just the excuse for my negligence of every single minute. I believe that the great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in six words,＂I did not have enough time.＂The fact is I do have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
The point is I have never touched upon the real meaning of life which lies in snatching, seizing and enjoying every minute of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination, no complaint! It is during my moments of complaining or hesitation that my destiny is shaped. Once I make full use of every moment, I believe that, my worries will be gradually cut down to nothing. Time is the most valuable of all our possessions, but the most perishable as well. As Henry David Thoreau said,＂You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.＂
Whenever I fell the lack of time in the future, I will tell myself ＂Carpe diem , seize the day, make every moment count.＂
有天晚上，我向媽媽抱怨自己事情太多，時間不夠。她說道：“你抱怨沒有時間就是因為你把珍貴的分分秒秒都浪費在抱怨和焦慮上。關鍵是，無論你的時間表排得多滿，如果你真的努力嘗試了，你還是總能做些事情。” 這同填充廣口瓶是一個道理，即使你將一小堆拳頭大小的石塊和一桶碎石倒進瓶裡，也還能繼續倒入沙子和水，使其漏進石塊的間隙中去。
“沒時間”無非是我為自己浪費分分秒秒找的託詞罷了。我相信成功與失敗的一線之差可以用六個字來形容：“我沒足夠時間。” 然而事實上，我卻與海倫．凱勒，帕斯特，傑弗遜和愛因斯坦每天所擁有的時間分秒不差。
關鍵是我並未觸及生命的真諦：抓住，享受生命的每一分鐘。不要碌碌無為，不要耽擱推遲，不要牢騷抱怨！往往是在我抱怨和遲疑的時候，我的命運就被決定了。而一旦我能善用分分秒秒，我相信我的煩惱也會被逐漸瓦解。
在我們所擁有的財富中，時間是最珍貴而又最不持久的。正如梭羅所說的那樣：“你得抓住現在，把握機會，在短暫的瞬間中尋找永恆。”
如果將來我再發覺沒時間的時候，我會告誡自己，“carpe diem (拉丁語)，抓住今天，抓住每分每秒。”
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