Who said father time is undefeated

We can't defy time, but we have a choice as to how we live with the time we are given. Will we spend it working at the expense of our loved ones?

Will we spend it on social media at the expense of being present? Will we spend the finite amount of time we are given focusing on the negative rather than appreciating all the positives around us? My grandmother is nearly 87 years old and has a terminal illness.

This Mother's Day will probably be her last. Like many large families, it's been difficult for my extended family to gather together on every special occasion because of work and family obligations, or differences in personalities. But, this year everyone did come together to celebrate my grandmother and she had a nice time being in the same room with all her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Everyone put differences aside and gave up a few hours for her.

Now that's a beautiful use of time. We often feel there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything on our to-do list.

There's always more work to do, more people to call back, or more plans to put into place in order to grow our businesses.

Sometimes it may feel like we are never ahead of time. So, let's do something that we can control, let's use our time wisely. Image cropped. Who Is Father Time? Father Time may be considered the husband of Mother Earth, so these two allegories are related. Like this: Like Loading June 20, at pm Reply. Have any thoughts on the subject?

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The camaraderie with your teammates. The competition versus the opposition. The thrill of being able to play in front of 20, people every night.

Your butterflies. Everything that goes with this. Nothing will be able to replace it. How do you set yourself up for it after? I don't know. That's something that you need to figure out.

And I've been able to set myself up now, at almost 30, to where I can have different options. NBA on TNT analyst Charles Barkley is never shy about sharing his opinion and, as you would expect, he has plenty of thoughts on Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant continuing his career after being limited to only 41 games over the past two seasons due to injuries. I hate to see Patrick Ewing, great as he was, struggle — I don't like seeing great players just out there, you know?

This should be like a farewell tour, play 20, 25 minutes a night. The Lakers aren't going to make the playoffs. Could he play some more? Yeah, of course. His best days are behind him.

Old people don't get healthy. Father Time is undefeated. You can get in great shape in the summer, because you're playing against air. Air doesn't hit back. Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily. Write him at: zhangxin chinadaily. Fan base?