Somewhere In Time

Some views hold that time is just a useful invention of humans and not a natural phenomenon. Time management is the basis of human society. Without the structure offered by time, a calendar and scheduling, civilisation would not have progressed. As you may have heard, time moves like the flow of a river. The waters pass by a bank, but it is never the same water. Moments to us can be compared to that flowing water. Each of us can reflect on that moment we remember with relish - but we will never be able to go back to that moment again. Time seems to go fast or slow down according to our emotions, how busy or not we are and when we are preoccupied with other things. Time is realised to be more finite once a person grows old. Time we have will not regenerate but brings each of us to recognise more of the impermanence of things. Forces of Earth remind us daily of the progress, completion and renewal of time in our lives. Sunrise, high noon and sunset. Perhaps more meaningful than feelings of the acceleration of time experienced in our personal lives is how and what we use time for every day of our lives. When one sinks into our interests, career and our loves, we can be less conscious about time. It does not matter about where all that time went, for we have focused and indulged into what we like to do with that dosage of time. It is only when we have a day when we are bored or feel stuck in a day of no progress that most likely we feel that time is moving so slowly. So how we feel about the progress of time has nothing to do at all with time. It is more about what we personally do with ourselves - and with our own time available to us. Giving your own time to someone else is a precious gift. #yongkevthoughts