The Stopwatch

                                                                

                                                   “What is this life if, full of care,

                                                     We have no time to stand and stare."

Man has mastered all. Yet he fails in one area, miserably - “TIME”. He could not bind it, he could not buy it, so he decided to measure it, in terms of money, profits, returns. Time wasted is money wasted. But how is time wasted? Munching a handful of pakoras while gaping at the raining city outside is time wasted. A prolonged dinner chatting with your family is time wasted. A walk to the garden with your pet beside you is time wasted. The reason being - they do not produce any tangible benefits, like money.

How do we define time? A dictionary definition of time would be “A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from past through the present to the future.” I would say time cannot be defined. It only lives through our memories, our feelings, our experiences, our love, and our lives. Not necessarily producing any material results but yes, giving us takings that help us to become better human beings.

I consider myself lucky enough to have been able to live a childhood enjoying the bliss of my father’s bed time stories and mother’s  handmade patisaptas and pithe because, back then, time could be “wasted” But my sympathies with the younger generation who, though, taught to utilize time don’t know how to respect it.

“A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."

-  William Henry Davies.