Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock, I am currently living in my grandma’s room as my room is completely frozen over. I don’t have a clock in my room as I have my mobile and that is enough for me.

My grandma is in Pakistan and so I have migrated into her room here in England.

I can’t go to sleep, because her bed is as soft as a teddy bear and her clock is too noisy.

But as I stop feeling annoyed at can’t getting any sleep and I listen to the quiet and the tick tock of the clock I realise that every second that the clock ticks and tocks, it leads to a minute, which leads to an hour and every hour leads to a day and every day leads to a week and every week leads to a month and every month leads to a year.

I realised that time is really precious, but do some people really take the time to really appreciate it?
As I was listening to that clock I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

We have so many experiences and memories that we want to treasure forever, but we can’t as life goes on and no matter how much we want to stay in that moment forever we can’t as life never waits, but at the same time, we have pain and hurt in our past that we want to forget, but we can’t...........

To get my point across, I realised that time is free, but it's priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Difficult times have made me a lot wiser than my age and to tell you the truth every day I want to be like others my age, I want to be carefree, I want to just let all of my worries go and join in all the fun, but I can’t.

I am 15 years old and I have gone through so much. I am not saying this to get you to feel sorry for me, in fact that is the very last thing I want. And I’m not going to bore you with my past hurt and pain, but I’m going to encourage you to not live in the past, not live in the future, but live in now.

You might not believe this (what coming from a 15 year old and that), but these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, even when it throws pain and hurt at you, as it gives you a chance to explore different feelings and emotions and a chance to learn from your mistakes, a chance to move on and a chance to make you stronger than before and that so many things that one goes worrying about everyday are of no importance whatsoever .

I have always said to myself that everything happens for a reason. And that failing is not about falling down, but about not getting back up again. I can honestly say that I am really thankful of all the bad things that have happened to me, because they’ve made me a better person, and each time they have hurt me they’ve made me stronger and out of each one of them I have learnt a very valuable lesson.

Back to the subject of time. Time goes soo fast it’s unbelievable. I mean the other day I was writing a History essay and as I was putting the finishing touches to it, I realised I hadn’t put the date on and I asked my mum, what the date was and she said it is the first of December. Is it just me or had this year gone speeding like a rocket?

It is no use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because that’s where you are.

Last but not the least (at least I don’t think so) I have never met a person who is not afraid of the future, who is not worried about the present, who does not want to go back to the past and correct their mistakes. Have you?

All my love from my heart to yours,AllThatSparkles. xXx

P.S. Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a gift, that’s why they called it the Present!