Borrowed Time
Sunday January 25, 2026
BORROWED TIME
Maybe you felt it at the birth of a new born. Or when someone close to you died. Maybe you felt it after the car crash or after the terminal illness care.
Or, it was when your child no longer needed a diaper to go to bed. When they no longer needed you to feed them, give them a bath or fetch them water. Not only are we on borrowed time - as death takes us all. Each moment we have is borrowed time. The question is, how will we use this loan we’ve been given?
I write this just a few hours before a big snow storm here in Connecticut. Even this, this snow storm is borrowed. How can I use this? How will I? We only have a few of these snow storms left together. daughter might move somewhere warm or overseas. My son who the hell knows. But that’s the point. We don’t know. So why the fuck do we waste time?
Why do we fritter it away on our phones, watching TV, ignoring our kids because there are 3:00 minutes left in the game and its tied. Why do we ignore our kids because the work email or call came in. We ignore our kids because we’re too busy doom-scrolling.
This time with our kids - regardless of age - is on loan. It is here today and gone tomorrow. My question to you, as I’ve asked myself, “how are you going to use it?” How am I going to use it?
If it’s borrowed that means it isn’t ours to begin with. We have to give something back. That means something. What memories do you want to give back? That a device was more important? That the anxiety of snow took your attention away from them? Or are we investing in this borrowed time to maximize on this loan we’ve been given?