In less than 10 seconds, Usain Bolt made history.
He made the seconds count. The world did the reverse and counted the seconds. There’s a difference.
To make the time count, few people see the time you put into the goal.
An Olympic athlete counts the years, months, days to the actual event. But once they are in the arena, they have to make the time count.
Suffering can make you count time. How many days to the weekend? How many years until your retirement? How many days to your death?
But to live for something flips the script. You make the time count.
Life is lived in that arena when time counts.