Last night was the time we move the clocks ahead.  I think a lot of us feel a little out of sync today.  Our time clock is a bit off for the next day or two.  I also think there is another factor in this.  We all "lost" some time last night.  An hour just disappeared.  When an hour can disappear in a second, it is a very visible reminder of the march of time we all face.  It also can remind us of all the time we have wasted or lost in different ways.

In a drug rehab program there are lots of momments like this.  While learning new ideas about how to handle things, it is hard to eascape the realization that our old ways of handling things cost us days, weeks months and possible years of our lives.  Gone from our grasp.  Rehab is a place to stop this waste.  Ironic that you have to spend time at a rehab program to learn how not to waste time.  You have to invest time to learn to be more efficeint at life. 

It is also true that if you work at learning new techniques, you will be given new opportunities to connect and reconnect with people.  You can build a history of accomplishment and service to others.  Life does hand out second chances.  Even look at daylight saving's time.  In the fall after you work all summer, it gives you the hour back.  Why not make losing the hour last night a chance to decide to not waste more time in your life?  What have you got to lose?

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