June 25, 2010
We are ultimately alone with Time in our lives. If we realize there are only two entities in our lives, Time and Me, we can start viewing Time as our collaborator, our partner in life. What is it that I can do so that Time can help me achieve what I want?
If we know our responsibility vis-à-vis Time, then Time and Us can achieve what we want. How is Time going to help me?
There are some things that only Time can do, and some that only we can do. Take a plant for example. We can sow the seed, which Time cannot, and Time can grow the plan, which we cannot. The same way we can create the cause for a smile, but it is time that makes the smile happen. We just create the cause, for Time to take over and do the rest. Without our creating the cause, Time can’t do much, and we actually can’t do anything except create the cause.
To get to know time, think of it from different perspectives – a minute, an hour, a day, week, or month, or a lifetime. Think of those 5-6 phases or stages that time goes through in each duration. Also, which stages do things go through in their phases over time.
Knowing time, and its nature, is imperative to be able to collaborate with it, to empower it to make the most happen as it flows on uninterrupted, and unstoppable. It is imperative to know when to be patient and let time do its work, and when to be impatient and do what time can then take forward. There are some things Time can do and some things it can’t. We must know which things will need us to do them, and when we have to do them, so the rest Time can do. We must be sensitive to the causes we can create which Time can work on after that.
“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” – Indira Gandhi
Time punctuates events, thoughts, everything. Time also gives each thought, each event its own space, its own identity. In many ways, time is like water. It flows, for one. Also, it takes on the color of what happens in it. So there are happy times, and sad times. In many other ways time is not like water. It flows on through thick and thin for example, unlike water. And we feel sometimes it doesn’t pass, and at others it passes too soon…
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Time is what makes the future into the past.
It is what we do and spend in the present that is time. The future and the past are figments of the imagination.
Time punctuates life. Sometimes with a comma, sometimes with a semicolon, or a full stop… and sometimes with ellipsis… the hope that it goes on.
Time is our understanding of change. In that sense, it is the Truth. Whether it is a Fact or not is yet to be discovered, but like the difficulty of not being able to realize what we go through while going through it, it is also difficult to understand time while we go through it.
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Time is what makes the future into the past.
It is what we do and spend in the present that is time. The future and the past are figments of the imagination.
Time punctuates life. Sometimes with a comma, sometimes with a semicolon, or a full stop… and sometimes with ellipsis… the hope that it goes on.
Time is our understanding of change. In that sense, it is the Truth. Whether it is a Fact or not is yet to be discovered, but like the difficulty of not being able to realize what we go through while going through it, it is also difficult to understand time while we go through it.
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