Time

By Blake Peiffer

We wake up in the morning and think about yesterday, 
we think about all the mistakes we made like tripping on the sidewalk and hurting our knees with blood rushing out of the scrape at an unstoppable rate, 
or getting an F- on a geology test, wishing we should have gotten all the answers right and get a better grade like A+. 
But of course, we all know that we can't turn back time, we only move forward in time,

We can't undo every little mistake we do in the past. 
It’s how the world works. 
When I was younger, I remember seeing multiple movies and tv shows with time-traveling 
like the 1985 film Back to the Future, 
I could only imagine what it must have been like climb into the Delorean, 
and zip into the past. 

And in my mind,
I do wish that time machines do exist, 
I wonder if there is a way they could become reality. 
But I know they never can become real. 
And so I search for a way to prove their existence. 
Every day I see all sorts of time-telling devices, 
watches, clocks, and sundials always ticking, 
always tocking telling time countlessly. 
I once heard a saying: 
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today brings a gift, that's why it’s called the present.” 

For years I wondered what it meant. 
But now I fully see and understand what it means, 
time is what this world runs on, 
time is the way we live, 
time is all we’ve got left, 
without it, the world will be a place we don’t move forward or backward, 
without time the world would stand still. 

And so, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, 
I ask you to be thankful for every little thing you’ve got, 
I know you can’t have all the time in the world, 
I know you can’t turn back time and undo past mistakes and accidents in your life, 
but I ask you to use your time wisely, 
have experiences, 
enjoy life while you can. 
Because at the end of the day time is all we’ve got, 
time is all we have. 
At the end of the day. 
Time is all we need.