The lines such as time and tide wait for none and keeping a
track of time have always been taught to every child including me. The
importance of the clock ticking away and each task to be completed within a
stipulated time is given a lot of importance
When a child goes to play school he is taught how
to solve a puzzle or
assemble a toy and the one who does it fastest is
acknowledged. In school, students race against time to complete a test in three
hours and the same follows in every competition or rather throughout life.
Looking at how we spend our lives chasing time and
trying to fit into
it’s frame it feels like we’ve turned into
machines that have a timer set and would starting beeping ‘failure’ as and when
the last second ticks. All over the world people are just running after completing
the task and meeting targets. When I looked around I saw a similar story; students
slogging on the last night before the exam, employees’ burning the night oil
before a presentation at work, contractors working to meet deadlines for
construction projects and so on.
So how do we break the deadlock from time and stop
functioning like a mere machine. People have found out the one and only answer
to the question via different sources and life experiences. I found mine
through an incident too.
Driving around the city I stopped at a red light
and saw the timer counting down from 90 to 1 waiting for the light to turn
green and I thought that there is no point trying to complete something just
because it has to be done within the given time. To break the deadlock one
needs to take up the job or task as his passion because the best things in life
happen when one is lost in what he is doing.
So stop looking at the clock ticking and work
towards what you love doing.
Do what you love doing and the clock will stand by
you and say,
“Sir you still have a lot of time to spare how
would you like to use me.”
