Borrowed Time
We all understand debt.
At least the kind that shows up on a statement.
Money borrowed today.
Paid back tomorrow.
But debt isn’t just financial.
We borrow from tomorrow in a hundred ways.
Sleep.
Health.
Integrity.
Time with people who matter.
This past weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Caleb and I caught an early flight.
One of the last to board was a young girl. Late teens, maybe.
You could tell the night had been long.
She dropped into the middle seat, pulled her hood up, laid her head down…
and was asleep before the door even closed.
Not a peaceful kind of sleep.
More like collapse.
She had already spent tomorrow.
And now the bill was due.
That’s the part we don’t talk about much.
Every decision pulls something forward…
or pushes something back.
We convince ourselves it’s small.
Just one late night.
Just one shortcut.
Just one compromise.
But the interest compounds.
And eventually, tomorrow comes asking.
I’ve done the same thing more times than I’d like to admit.
Borrowed energy I didn’t have.
Borrowed time I couldn’t afford.
Borrowed against things that actually mattered.
It always feels manageable in the moment.
Until it isn’t.
Life has a way of settling accounts.
Not to punish us.
But to remind us that everything costs something.
Lately I’ve been asking myself a better question.
Not what do I want right now…
but what am I borrowing from later?
Because some debts are easy to repay.
Others take more than we expected.
And a few aren’t worth taking on at all.
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