Race against time: trying to make the most of it
The participation in the Procrastination session held by IIT Counseling Center had my mind ticking about the ways to make the most of my time. But then, battling with procrastination is again losing time, and there are no means to gulp down all the time in the world and store it in your system for future use, or lock it in a cabinet safely from escaping you. You can talk about cherished moments but not treasure time in your grandma’s chest.
The more the time you spend thinking how to use it, the more you’re losing it. The age-old saying, “Time is precious,” holds a lot of inner meaning and embodies various facets of life to decipher and evince its message. In the long eventful journey of life, every moment of time is precious, valuable and irrevocable. Needless to say, a person who doesn’t bask in bygone success and dismisses the past mishaps, instead acting timely in the present, and planning his future well ahead, reigns to make the best of what he can do.
Time can’t be bought, captured or made. It can only be properly utilized. To quote Queen Elizabeth’s last words, “All my possession for a moment of time” shows time rules the world. Scientifically speaking, the Earth takes 365 and a quarter days to revolve around the sun. The entire solar system is governed by time. The sunrise, the sunset, the monsoons all yield to time. There need be no more introduction to substantiate the importance of time management.
As graduate students, we see time management as how we can balance both Master’s and merriment in one goblet and relish the wine of success. There is more to it, which we fail to see. Every breath inhaled and exhaled determines the time lost in each person’s life. There is no way to conquer, amass, fight with, or win over time; the only sensible thing to do is to live up to the times. A human being is subjected to various changes in behavior with changing time. The time factor consequently determines the age factor and the different phases of life we undergo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” There are a plethora of wise sayings, to mention a few:
“Life is like an ice cream, enjoy it before it melts.” Does that imply don’t bother with time? But then time does bother you.
“Live for the moment.” Does that tell us not to waste time by pouring hours into scheduling?
“Time is the best healer.” Does that tell us to let time exhaust a toll of our time to regenerate, what should have been said as “let go of your past as passing clouds”?
Should we ever have to spend time ruminating over all of this, rather than just take life as it comes? What is the proper indicator of using time wisely?
On one hand, we see time as an inbuilt ingredient in our daily lives, and on the other hand, we collectively hear time indicators like man-hours and man-days in our workplace. Is there a way to excise it from our lives? But then you realize that time and lives are intertwined, that’s why it is a lifetime. What is all this elucidation about? Does it conclude anything or are we still at the beginning? Will time be gone forever after the big bang explosion occurs? Little do we know that time sets stage for another beginning, another evolution, and another Adam and Eve story to begin with.
The discussion will either take the clockwise direction or the anticlockwise direction but remain rotating forever. The seminar “Mechanics of Time” by the Vedic Vision Society organized by IIT laid the foundation for viewing time in the spiritual dimension as an eternal source of God’s energy. But yet there seems to be no conclusion to set standards for time as a whole. There could be a GST, EST, but there is no lifetime for the time factor. There is no beginning, there is no end. It is unconquerable, invincible, omnipresent. It was there before Christ, and it is there after Christ. It is not how time came into being, like the existence of God. Time was not invented or made to be envisioned. It is clear that everything ultimately revolves around time, so what we can practice and bear in mind is that a better present makes for a good past and future.
