There are a lot of things considered to be a commodity: Ideas, money, natural resources, products, by-products, manpower, so on and so forth.

But there is one commodity that applies to all and especially for me: TIME.

Yes, if you may have money to spend, ideas to impart, natural resources to distribute, manpower to offer, but do you have the time to do so?

It is true, time is gold.

Time is also the best gift you can offer anyone, and time is relative. Even if you have a lot of idle time such that you have a lot of time in hand, it doesn’t mean it should not be important although its importance is diminished subjectively. Take into account that a minute spent is a minute lost FOREVER.

Although it may be true that time may go forward for eternity, our lives do not.

One man may have money but what is he going to use it for? Surely you have to spend it somewhere sometime for you certainly can not bring it with you when you turn to dust. If you come to think of it, most people think that money is the most important commodity such that they forget to realize that if you have all the money in the world, you would not have enough time to spend it all. Worse, you can not buy time (for now, perhaps) but your time can make money. I’m contrasting money with time because I feel that a lot of people really root for money as the greatest commodity.

In the big sense, for those who have a lot of money already, they want more money not because they need it… But perhaps to create this impression in history… a legacy (save for those greedy politicians who just want more, I’m talking about people like Warren Buffett). Because they know that sooner or later their time will come to a halt and they do not want to be seen as just someone who used his borrowed time and be forgotten. So what they really invest on is… time to be remembered.