The lamp must be something special; it costs a hundred bucks plus shipping
and handling. You likely have seen them advertised in various magazines. The
lamp has a rather tall rod coming from a heavy base that sits on the floor.
The lamp must be something special; it costs a hundred bucks plus shipping
and handling. You likely have seen them advertised in various magazines. The
lamp has a rather tall rod coming from a heavy base that sits on the floor.
From the top of the rod protrudes a flexible section that holds a hood sort
of thing. The hood holds some little tube lights that are touted as producing
a wonderful color of light that is just like being outside. Thats what
you get for a hundred bucks plus shipping and handling.
The instructions that come with the lamp say the lightbulbs will last 5,000
hours. That is good to know. It means you can turn the lamp on and leave it
and enjoy 208 days and some 33 minutes of continuous light.
Or, you can enjoy the light for ten hours on 500 different days. Thats
ten hours a day for one year and 135 days. Or, for five hours a day for two
years and 270 days or about nine months, whichever way turns you on. Or, you
could turn it on 40 hours a week and get 125 work weeks of light.
This is important stuff.
What could you do with 5,000 hours?
Using that lamp, how many books could you read? How many magazine articles?
How many crossword puzzles could you work? How many letters could you write?
How many fishing flies could you tie? How much crocheting could you do? How
much of the Bible could you read?
What would we do with our time if we were told, “You have 5,000 hours
to live? When those 5,000 hours are gone, you are gone – your light is
off.”
No question about it, most of us would use those 5,000 hours judiciously. And,
we would use every single second of every one of those 5,000 hours.
Time. We either try to cram it full of activities, or while it away. We rush
like there is never enough time, or sit around like it is in never-ending supply.
How would you live if you were given 5,000 hours to live – 208 days and
33 minutes? You know, contemplating how you would spend those hours would not
be a bad way to spend the first few of the hours.
And, it would not be a bad way to spend some of the hours of these rainy days
asking yourself, “How will I spend the rest of my life, be it 500 hours,
5,000, or 50,000?