Sweepin' Time Bombs!! 
I recalled a conversation with a friend couple of weeks back.. and we were just chit chatting about how work, studies, project have been, and how are things on each other sides. What started as a casual question was returned with a barrage of complains and what even sounded like "grievances". Somehow my friend kept complaining of having no time... for example:
"I really have no time to resolve issues with XXX (over some friendship matters), I've got more important things on hand to deal with right now..."
"I am really rushing alot of work now, I dun even have no time for my family.. not to even mention friends!..."
"I dun really want to entertain what other people are complaining about their work, I got no time for such matters, got many other things to work on..."
"I am very busy with work, got no time for anything else..."
"Sigh... i wish i had 8 days a week.. with that extra 24 hours, i can do so much more things!"
Period. It was enough to make me ponder and think through what i had just been bombarded with. Time.... is it really so hard to balance and juggle the 24/7 that we have on hand? Putting it very straightforward, i believe it has got to do with how individual cope with workloads and the efforts we make in prioritizing one's time. 24/7 is gonna be a fixed matter till eternity, either we learn to cope and do some proper schedule, or we risk being swallowed alive or overwhelmed by the daily workloads and affairs of life! There are always many things that require our attention, important matters, not so important matters, ad-hoc issues that crop up, deadlines to meet...etc and all these require time off our already packed schedule! Pen and paper.. sit down, be still and start doing some proper planning.. that should help. =)
But one danger which we may fast overlook is how the term "No time!" may be slowly affecting the way we handle friendships, BGR, marriage, family..etc. There is a risk of allowing the term "I have no time / not enough time" to become an excuse of running away from tough confrontations whenever we face problems. Mind you, these problems not only come from human relationships, but even in our work and studies! 
And the most common solution that man immediately tend to come up with is to sweep everything under this carpet branded "No time!" We escape from conflict resolution and settling problems by using the excuse, "I am very busy now", "I have no time", "Can we talk about this some other time?" (Of course there are times where these excuses are genuine, the truth is only we ourselves know whether we are going into escapism or not)
Honestly, i speak on this issue in position of weakness also.. sometimes i am also guilty of being a "sweeping under the carpet person". When i dun learn to resolve the problems faced and choose to escape, i am sweeping the matter under the carpet. The next problem comes along, i choose to escape and the cycle repeats. The carpet will only get dirtier as days go by...soon one fine day it will only take a small matter to trigger the carpet to flip open, equivalent to opening a can of worms.
I believe God has given us time (24/7) as a precious element and we must learn and engage ourselves to be good stewards of it in how we make us of our time by prioritizing and focusing on the urgent matters on hand. How we go about doing it will be a learning process... there will be times we fail to make the cut, but don't give up... pick ourselves up... move on and we have learnt a valuable lesson. It is all about striking a good balance. Not letting "No time" become an excuse, yet also being good stewards and use our time effectively.
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