The Dark Dark Night

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Can we really manage time?

We like to tell ourselves that we can manage our own time, but can we really do it? Is we the master or the slave of time itself? Who has the ultimate control over who? Can we really grasp the essence of time?

Time is something that is always not on our side. It passes so fast that we never had a chance to fully make use of it and to treasure it. The beauty of time is something that we will not be able to learn before it happens. There is alot of meaning for time if you search under a good dictionary. It tells us that no one can understand what time really is and no one understands it.

As mere mortal, we try our best to plan according to timing but never to understand the other aspect of time itself that we miss out. We always create buffer time for us to use before commencing on the next activity. But we never realise that all these buffer time added up can be use for another meaningful activity as well. There is only 24 hours a day according to layman understanding. Nothing more, nothing less. This means that we have limited resources but we have unlimited use for it. What we can do is to prioritise the important things first and forgo the others if we do not have the time. But we still can use put in buffer time, waiting time and what-not timing inside. So if we can plan better, why can't we do everything?

What I am trying to say is that we often waste time on things we planned for. Minimizing on the other uses of the limited time a day we have. For example, we train badminton for 3 hours a day and 3 times a week. But we put the rest of the time to waste. Why can't we use our lunch break or some empty slot in-between lessons for some simple training? Like wrist or footdrills which can take very little time. We rather let the time go to waste and daze around.

Time passes real fast and it is never on our side. With a blink of an eye, everything will be gone. Be it good or bad, everything will be history. Friends who are reading this, if you are going through good times or even bad times, make sure you treasure this experience. Once it is over, it will never happen again. You will not be able to relieve this particular moment of your live again.

There is only one 16th birthday in your life. One time you first went to your secondary school. Once that you have your first love and even your first crush. Treasure and savior every moments of your life and never let any second go to waste. Do what you want and do bold. You never know if you have the chance to do it again.

zihao blogged at 1/31/2009 11:55:00 AM

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