Wednesday, May 24, 2006

What is it with time anyways?

Is the world shrinking? Atleast mine is. If I meet someone new I find out that they are already good friends with my other friend. It has definitely become quite a stiff challenge, and I should say I am becoming an expert at juggling calls, to stay in touch with pretty much everyone I know even though there is scrapping, emails, offlines, phone calls, voicemails. Its just not enough 24 hours to do so many zillion things... Yes you are hard pressed for time to stay in touch or well you are …easily put... a lazy bum! I guess I am a bit of both! Now that’s my problem!!

Time as such is quite an abstract overrated concept! Who decided that there would only be 24hours in a day? This has been my question all along. You are busy all the time or you are completely just bored out of your mind and do some crazy stuff to kill time (I wish if that concept was true…just go kill time??) Time stands still and you are waiting forever for the weekend to come when it’s a Monday or time just zips past you especially if it’s a weekend or a long weekend. I know that it’s your mind playing games on you but still you do feel all of this.

Remember postponing your holiday homework so you will complete a week before school starts and when all of a sudden it’s the night before school starts and you are cramming trying to complete it. What happened to all that planning where did all that time go? Where did that week go? You did not just while it away you were doing something totally unproductively useful! See my theory is this anything you consider useful at the moment becomes obsolete and absolutely useless after some point of time.(Again time plays a major role in this)

Remember those study holidays when you used to make plans how you would split your studying the subjects? It’s the end of the holidays and you still haven’t started even one chapter and the exam is the next day? Of course who would have the time to study with a busy schedule of sleeping (you need enough rest to prepare), watching TV (to see if the exams have been postponed only to find out that they have been advanced!!), hanging out with friends (checking the syllabus and exchanging notes of course!), watching movies (trying to relieve the too much stress and tensions caused due to exams), eating good food (but of course…you cant live without eating. Whom are you kidding?)

You don’t want to keep things for the last minute yet you finally wind up doing something at the last hour. I only wish the God of death was as screwed up with time as us. Wouldn’t that be a penny for my thoughts?
Anyways I dont blame Einstein for pondering over time, even though his theories gave me a hard time at school. I know a couple of my friends who are still debating and passing or rather killing time arguing over this theory!

It is rightful for your friends to get mad at you since you were the one who promised to stay in touch. The best way to work this out would be set a schedule for yourself and go round robin in calling everyone so that you keep everyone happy! This would avoid ,you getting threatening voicemails or scraps!

And to top it be aware of time management coz time is one elusive customer!

4 comments:

senthil natarajan said...

time is really elusive....

Hussain said...

I guess this is the first sensible post on this page. I am surprised to see you write so intelligently and thoughfully.

Most friends are not worth ur time that u have to juggle and squeeze in time for them. True friends will be with u, others will fade away.

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@sn:yes i agree that u agreed with me
@rupesh:yes you are right. as the sayin goes time and tide waits for no man
@hussain:what do u mean by that huh?may b u r right, may b wrong. i dunno can't say since i am not intelligent and thoughtful u see!

Unknown said...

i just read through all recent blogs... interesting thoughts and very well put

the "tagged" quiz was hilarious...i bet you to name your kids GUI/GNU :)

and with regards to juggling between friends, remember that they go through the same process(mostly)...so, if you get an irate scrap for not calling, its just a confession of his/her guilt (of not calling)