Time waits for none. Often, we hear people exclaiming – kya yaar, patta hi nahi chala kab time hua, mhuje der hui! Besides, ‘ago kit sangom, time kitkonn dhanvta mhunn hanvuch noko’.
Well, ahead of time, an English idiom is so very important and relevant 24×7 in our day to day living. In fact this is like a precious thing you do not want to part with but roam around as a perpetual companion. Yet, this precious practice of being ahead of time is losing its value and importance which is more visible than ever. I would not do justice if I include everyone in this group and generalise. For there are a few per cent who do are ‘ahead of time’.
This taught crossed my mind while travelling in a market at Jaipur when the cab was halted at the signal. A young lad overtook the traffic and taking the footpath drove his bike and made his way through in the front telling those non-verbally that he is late, maybe or may not be but that was what others concluded saying.
This is not the only incident – we have thousands of them and if you are a daily commuter, one will witness it at junctions with signals or other places of halt. Even on a Sunday if you sit outside of the church during the Eucharist after the gospel reading you see people still parking their cars to come for mass whilst others keep walking at their own pace.
So, being ahead of time – is the one thing, a practical one, one needs to try to practise and live with and make it a way of life! And what one needs to learn from young. Learning is either emulated or comes from experience and one’s own efforts put in to explore! For, if one does something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need it, in order to be well prepared in advance, beforehand. Because “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead… “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
I remember, we had a habit of going to church or any function ahead of time. Something what we picked up from our parents and elders at home. This discipline was engraved in us while young. When our faculties were young and could turn and twists, run and climb. This calls for early discipline and discipline comes with time management. Time is related with discipline and management. They are the same sides of one coin. Nonetheless, it is from discipline that a disciple is born!
No wonder it is said, until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. For time management requires the self, (self that is willing to mortify) self-discipline and self-control more than anything else. Just as Rabindranath Tagore declares: The butterfly counts not months but moments and has enough time.
So, this article too comes out from a time management and the one thing I learnt and treasure how to spend it. Time and tide wait for none and it encourages us to make the most of it, as the saying goes, time waits for no one.
