Time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

Now you always say
That you want to be free
But you’ll come running back (said you would baby)
Youll come running back (I said so many times before)
Youll come running back to me

Time and change. Time and change.  Mick argued eloquently, that given enough time, his lover would change her mind and come running back to his loving arms.

Last fall, Tim Johnson asked me how I was going to change the world.  I responded with this post over at Liz Strauss’s site.  I’ve been thinking some more about the whole deal and I’m not alone.

It’s a popular topic. Liz had a great conversation going on last month: “What’s the difference between the person who changes a dream into reality and the person who looks on?  One changes the world.”

I would argue the person with the dream and the time can make the change.

Roger Carr reminds us we don’t have to be great leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Mother Teresa to make a difference but you do have to give up some time. “We just have to do the best with who we are, with the time we have, and the skills we can use,” says Roger.

Rosa Parks became the face of the civil rights movement because she chose to act. Whether a conscious act or not, she set change into motion.  She took the time to sit down.

We can all make a difference in this world but we have to get over this obsession with time. Without it, change isn’t coming. Is time the only difference maker between the change agents and the perpetual dreamers?

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