The Wonder of Time

Nothing has attracted as many epithets and sayings as time. But it has not lost its ability to bewilder us. More confounded am I when I look at myself.

Not long ago, in fact, four months ago, I was in Cyprus, marshaled in an International Software Company, and leading a life of typical worker, hustled-bustled with an equally enjoyable off-work life. It was all too perfect – a daily life of chores of various sorts. Business trips, Meetings, Project Deadlines and Birthday Parties, Pubs, Beaches and Cooking, Reading Novels, Watching Movies, Blogging – an array of my definitive moments there.

All permuted, rather substituted, now! More direct in case is my blogging. Having pledged to be a regular writer of my blogs, I have/had been forced to forego it, even if for a greater cause. I get a small window of time now to resume it, but I don’t know how long I will be able to sustain it. The needed hawk-eyed focus on my Studies and Exams warrants it though. But I believe I will come back stronger once it is over. So, all -Job, Parties, Movies, Novels etc – take a backseat for some more time. Time of now dictates this.

Ever wondering about my new phase of life, I was taught another lesson when I went to the wedding of one of my friends. I was to attend a marriage after a gap of four years; moreover it was a first for me of any of my friends’. Naturally I was excited, expecting to relive some of the moments passed by in the College. It was a happy reunion with many friends; most of them hadn’t changed in appearance. But there was a definite move-on in each one of ours’ lives. Most prominent of all was the new spouses of the married ones. It felt really good and surreal too, to see some new space created and taken by new members. More so, I think I felt like that, because I am unmarried yet. But I couldn’t help notice the fact that all had leaped in thought process too. Work, Future, Life – the words were the buzzwords of our talks, something which couldn’t have got even a shoe-in in our talks in the college. I wonder what would we be discussing 5 or 10 years hence – our gardens, furniture, children’s school, work’s responsibility? Well, a very strange thought but a very probable one.

You can call it the dynamics of change and hence a nothingness of sorts. But if you miss the wonder of it, you miss the essence of it, as time can never reveal itself in more acuity and clarity than this.