Thought for the day twenty two

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love, time is eternity.

                                                                           - Henry van Dyke

TIME.. just four letters. But what a big gap it can bring... they say ask the value of a week to a weekly magazine editor... value of a second who has just escaped an accident ... etc.,

A watched pot never boils is a very famous saying. When we stand in front of a milk pot waiting for it to boil, it never happens fast. You feel it is taking its own sweet time! When you try to go away for just a few moments and come back, you will see the milk spilled over the stove!

A person who has to get up early keeps alarm to wake up the stipulated time. The alarm rings at the exact moment. The person feels he could do with just with a few more moments. But when he wakes up, to his horror, it is almost 2 hours past his specific timing.

If one feels sad about something, he keeps on thinking about it the whole day. Time won’t pass for that person even if one keeps seeing at the watch to get over with it.

If a person is partying and has to catch a train during the night, suddenly the time would be nearing to catch the train. That person would wonder where the time slipped through.

But a person in love will always feels time is eternal. The person would be handing the hand of his/her love and the time just stands still.

One time and so many expressions. For some, it is fast, for some others it is very slow. How does this happen?

It is the matter of perception.

Because time is the same for everyone. It has 24 hours or 1440 minutes or 86400 seconds for everyone.

When we like something, when we like someone, when we have to spend time doing that, the time passes so quickly that we will feel that the time has gone fast.

When we don’t like something, when we don’t like someone, when we have to spend time with that, then the time becomes slow. We feel we are spending a life time doing that.

With our love, the time stands still. There is a song... if I and you are together; we don’t have the time constraint. Time actually is forgotten.

We say when a good person undergoes a bad phase that his time is not good. On the other hand if a bad person cheats good people, they say ‘time will teach a lesson’ to the cheat.

So, the time takes such an important role in our lives.

There are funny incidents.... when we have to leave the office at 6.30, from 5.30 the time starts crawling. When we are forced to stay back for some more time to finish a job. If we have to leave at 8.15, the time flies and we are left wondering whether the time is enough to finish the job.

We have to respect time. We can’t get back the time which has passed. The time which is passed without a good deed done is considered a criminal waste of time.

But we have to spend some time with ourselves indulging in self-development or self-introspection at least for half hour every week, if not every day.

When we are lovers the time is eternal, but when we get married, suddenly we become weary of our partners and the time spent with them seems wasted. No, this is not a healthy attitude and need to be corrected fast.

Doing what we say is integrity and saying what we do is honesty.

Honest people’s names are used by others to swear. Since the world has more dishonest people now, the honest people are looked like as if they are some special people.

Some people revere them. Some other people mock at them.

But if someone is really honest, he/she should not bother by the adverse comments.