Time

By Bob Kasieta, Board President

An average life lasts about 1,000 months, around 83 years. None of us knows how many we will get. The first 240 months or so are spent on formal education. The last several dozen months often present diminishing physical and/or mental capacity. If we sleep 8 hours per night during the rest of those months, that leaves 482 months to do the thing we call living. Take out time for eating, bathing, earning a living (assuming a 40-hour work week), and we have approximately 155 months during an average lifetime - about 13 years – to spend as we please.

That which is scarce is precious. You could do anything with your priceless discretionary months. You choose to share your valuable time and great talent with BPNN. You invest them in your neighbors. You give the dearest gifts any of us have by volunteering. You do so in good spirits and with a smile. You, my friends, are nothing short of amazing.

You come to BPNN from divergent spiritual, political, ethnic, generational, social, economic, and cultural places. But you come together to create a force for good that changes our community. Put in the context of the precious scarcity of time, you literally sacrifice your time for others. By this sacrifice, you set an example in our quarrelsome world that people from disparate places and beliefs can exist together. We can thrive together, focused on common good. That truly is a noble use of the short time we have. And it is the only way in which our weary world moves forward.

Happy New Year! Thank you for all you do.

 Bob