Wasted time

How can that be controlled that was always free?
How can that be wasted that was never ours?
Wasted time is but time that evades expectations.
If we learn from it, time wasted turns into time gained.

Time is the story we tell ourselves to explain the journey of our lives.
To understand it is to create our personal legend.
To honour it is to respect its sacred wisdom.
To accept it is to embrace its passage without fear.