“How much time is left?” asked a student in Peter’s indoor cycling class.
During the class, the instructor was guiding the students through a set of hard, high intensity intervals where the students had to both add resistance and pedal harder in order to simulate climbing up steep hills. However, the instructor would not tell the students how long each hill interval would be, so one of the students kept asking: “How much time is left?”
How much time is left? What an interesting question, I thought, as Peter shared the story with me and we talked through what the question might mean. From the perspective of the cycling class, one student may love the feeling of working hard and want the interval to last as long as possible, and time seems to fly. Another student may be willing for the interval to be over, yet time seems to trickle slowly.
As humans, we seem to be fixated on time. The questions we can ask are endless: How much time is left until my vacation starts? Or, until my vacation ends? How much time must I wait in line? How much time is left before warmer weather? How much time left until I die? In all cases, time marches forward.
The student in Peter’s cycling class asked the question that reminds about the limited time we have. So, why not find meaning and purpose in whatever time we have?
Kindly,
David