{"id":1300,"date":"2020-02-03T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2020-02-03T23:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:36:28","slug":"time-waits-for-no-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/time-waits-for-no-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Time waits for no man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly the day started and \u2026 it is already six o\u2019clock in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday and it\u2019s already Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and the month is already over.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and the year is just beginning<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and already 40, 50 or 60 years of our lives have passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and we realize that we lost our dear ones, siblings and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and we realize that it is too late to go back\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 Let\u2019s try, however, to take full advantage of the time we have left\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not stop looking for activities that we like\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s put color in our greyness\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s smile at the little things in life that put balm in our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, we must continue to enjoy serenely the time that remains.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try to eliminate the \u201cafter\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>I do it after\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I will say after\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I will think about it after\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We leave everything for later as if \u201cafter\u201d was ours.<\/p>\n<p>Because what we do not understand is that: after, the coffee cools\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>after, priorities change\u2026<\/p>\n<p>after, the charm is broken\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>after, the health passes\u2026<\/p>\n<p>after, the children grow up\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>after, the parents get older\u2026<\/p>\n<p>after, the promises are forgotten\u2026<\/p>\n<p>after, the day becomes the night\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>after, life ends\u2026<\/p>\n<p>and after that its often too late\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>so\u2026 leave nothing for later\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Because always waiting for later, we can lose the best moments, the best experiences, the best friends, the best family\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The day is today\u2026. The moment is now.<\/p>\n<p>We are no longer at the age where we can afford to postpone until tomorrow what needs to be done right away. So let\u2019s see if you have time to read this and then share it.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe you\u2019ll leave it for \u2026. \u201clater\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>And you will not share it \u201cever\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Even to share with those who are not yet \u201cSeniors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Decade, a new frontier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Pinheiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly the day started and \u2026 it is already six o\u2019clock in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday and it\u2019s already Friday. \u2026 and the month is already over. \u2026 and the year is just beginning \u2026 and already 40,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pormoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}