Apeckchya Karki

I attended a school alumni party after a long time. I was really excited. During my old days, I was always late for gatherings. But now, I have realised the value of time: so this time I decided to be on time. For me reality, living, experiences, coherence of processes, directionality and irreversibility are the nature of time. Actually the word time connotes changes with circumstances in which it is used. At times when I ask myself the question what is time, I feel the word referring to some independent entity or dimension of nature that could be described if I had tried hard enough. Time is basically the frame of moments. I realise that now in this moment of time, I am creating. I am creating my next moment that is what’s real.

When I reached the venue, I saw some friends had already arrived. On enquiring about their early arrival, they said that for them time was moving slowly, therefore they were there to let the time pass. Others as usual arrived late. As an explanation they said time was moving fast. Being engaged, they could not make out the time fleeting past them. This made me think about the types of time. Fast time, slow time, passing time, letting time pass, having and not having time, time coincidence and network of time could be a few of them. Usually, the passing of time depends on our thinking, too. Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood and ease. It’s our unmanaged emotions that turn time into an opponent and make life a rat race. That’s why at times we feel the pace of time too quickly when we need time and time is not moving at all when we want it to move fast. Thus managing time with the heart is the ultimate time management expertise.

Sitting together and chatting, we flew back to our schooldays, our past. Time is definitely the collection of our experiences and coherences of various events. There were times when I had fun, or sincerely helped someone or deeply appreciated an experience. Recalling such times makes me feel good mentally, emotionally and physically. When you know even for a moment that it’s your time, then you can walk with the power of a thousand generations’ quality living added to your day. But our living takes place in the present, in the moment in which it is taking place. As we explain our occurrence in the present, we, humans, begin to use the notion of past present and future. We invent the past as the source of now or present and we invent the future as a dimension that arises from an extrapolation of the future and they are invented to explain our living in the present. Time is invented as the platform in which past, present and future can take place.

On chatting further we discussed about how we spend our time is more important than how we spend our money. Money mistakes can be corrected but time is gone forever. You can not relive it and correct the mistake. Once you miss it, it is gone. People can really make time to do the things they really want to do. So we should make the best use of time. Looking at each other we felt that time had changed and we had changed with the time. I guess time, wine, women and fortune are ever changing. By the end of the day, we concluded that those golden hours between sunrise and sunset are a set of diamond minutes which are precious. If lost they are gone forever. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago therefore we have to hold our time closely and behold the beauty of the hours.