A Question of Time

I had no time, I was a little busy today”.

This is an oft stated premise which we give a family member, a friend or a dear one. Now, is this really true? How much time is really enough for us? Not twenty-four hours?

I remember a line from a movie I saw a very long time ago in which the protagonist tells a girl - “Time hota nahin hai,nikalna padtha hai”. Now for the folks who thought that was Greek let me tell you it is not. That's a quote from a Hindi movie and it meant - we never have time, we have to make it. Well, at least that's what I got from it!!.

So then what does it convey. We'll never find time for everything and everyone. It is absolutely impossible. Life has become very contemporary. The people we move with, the kind of work we associate with are becoming the most important part of our lives. To explain our failure to keep up with the rest of our things, we have one good reason. A lack of time.

And that is no understatement. We really don't. Change is constant. We have to run to keep pace with the world which is running amok. In the midst of all this we don't have enough time to stop and stare. Are we handling things as we ought to? Am looking for answers.

Do we care to return an old friend's note? Even our own family members seem to be against us once we are married. We don't tend to think with them anymore. We do not realize the importance of people in our lives. There'll be cases where our rejection might lead them to not come back to us again. We always to realize the importance of something only after we lose it. Should we be doing it with people too? Can't we make a little bit of time today to write to a friend, call a parent. And not just for the sake of making the call. Can you make the call to inquire how your mom is doing, how's she doing with all the work, whether she needs any help at all. If you can start doing this i believe you would have made some time and no more will you say you were too busy.

Everybody lives only twenty four hours a day. Skip a few minutes of the unnecessary gossip we have everyday, lose ten minutes of your sleep and wake up early, think a little bit less about ourselves. It's not going to do any harm to us. It'll tell somebody that you have not forgotten them. That you still care about them. And when they ask you how come you are not busy maybe you could even tell them - “Time hota nahin hai,nikalna padtha hai”!!.