Time is perhaps the only thing that keeps ticking and never stands still, even for a moment. It never has and never will. They say that time and tide wait for none, but a tide may ebb, while time never tarries or moved backward.
Time can be measured in seconds, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries or millenniums. Importance of time varies from event to event, person to person and from period to period. To a person taking part in a 100 metre sprint the value of a fraction of a second may be equivalent to the value of five minutes for a person giving a three hour examination, although a fraction of second and five minutes are not comparable.
Each one of us treats time in our own different way. Some are always running against time while some of us go through life as though we have all the time in the world. On certain occasions you may feel that time just does not pass, while at other times you may feel that time is fleeting past in the wink of an eye. Some of us treat time with a lot of patience, while others are impatient to get more out of time and are always rushed.
One may be impatient to stop at a traffic crossing for two minutes when the traffic light turns red and gets tempted to cross before it turns green, but may think nothing of spending hours sitting in front of the TV watching a programme of no consequence or sit in a cinema hall for three hours watching a senseless film.
Each one of us has a fixed amount of time available to us.
If an average man lives for 65 years, he has 780 months or 23741 days at his disposal. Come to think of it, it is not a very long period of time that we stay on earth on human form, especially if you compare it to the billions of years that life has existed on earth. Yet, however, at times a few seconds seem like eternity.
Notwithstanding the insignificance of our existence in relation to time, what is important is to ensure that we leave a mark in the limited time that we have. It is our actions and deeds and how we utilize our time to make the world a better place and whether or not we leave an impact for posterity, which really matters. Millions of people are born, go through life, and pass away into the void, unsung, unheard, unnoticed, yet there are those select few, who are remembered through generations for their words, their deeds and their actions.
Ram, Krishna, Jesus, Allah are venerated as Gods and have tremendous impact on society. There are others like Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Chaucer, Einstein, Wright brothers, Madame Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, and a host of other renowned people who will always be remembered for their contribution to society. What is important is the impact. You have to leave your imprint on society, to be remembered, otherwise, time will ensure that you pass off into insignificance.
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