Time

The day passed in a hurry today – as if it wanted to go faster than I could blink. Nothing unusual or surprising, but still I am feeling as if I got up just a couple of hours back. It might as well a reflection of my state of mind because clock never speeds up or slows down. The best and worst of the days of life are exactly of the same length. The sun rises and then sets to give way to moon at the same time, irrespective of what happens in the day or what doesn't happen in the day.

Every day we get exactly the same number of hours and minutes and seconds, to do whatever we plan to or destined to do – still some days seem shorter than others. Staying alone for a while also encourages one to do introspection. I have been doing lot more inward focused thinking about myself – how and what has changed in last decades. I have not stayed alone for so long in last 10-15 years, so this means I never had this much time to reflect on the passed years.

Mind travels faster than anything in the world. One moment I am 10 years old boy, with a cricket bat in hand, my younger brother always next to me and having lot of fun in the field and in school. Another moment I am the growing up student in the engineering college, with lot of ambitions in heart and endless energy at disposal. Then few blinks later, I am the young and confident biz school grad, fearless but curious to see what the future has to offer. It is just amazing that in a short span of 30-35 years, I have gone through so many transformations already. What would it be like when I am 60-70 years old? How does my father look back at life now at 75 years? My grandfather had the privilege to live for 100 years, what would have been going on in his mind?

True, time is the fourth dimension and sets thing in perspective. We must respect it always; it is the irreversible phenomena which takes place 3600 times in an hour. It offers a never ending count of opportunities and those who catch them make the most of it.