The phrase "spending time together" is often seen as a positive thing, but if you think about it, maybe "sharing time" is really what we mean. Spending means that you have a finite amount of something that you are giving up; sharing means that you are making more of what you have with another person. So really, when we talk about wanting to spend time with someone, if it's someone we care about, we should want to share time with them.
Our lives are so busy and so filled up with chores and work we need to do and places we need to go, that taking that precious commodity of time with someone else, should replenish and not deplete us. We should feel that being in the presence of the other person builds us up, teaches us something, or has us feeling cherished and appreciated. It is those times of being with someone else where you leave feeling less than, feeling tired, feeling anxious or angry, that we feel the time we spent; as opposed to being with someone and walking away feeling better than we did before having shared that time together.
So when you are choosing what to do with your time, choose someone to share time with. Choose to have your time held softly and gratefully by the other person. Choose to be with someone who energizes and builds you up, someone who looks at you with gratitude for choosing them. Choose to share your time and have someone else share theirs with you, because in the end, it's that sharing that makes the moments of life we look back on and smile.
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