Time, a year gone by and years to come.....

Time and a A year gone by and years to come.....

Today is the last day of the year. Many would be celebrating, bringing in the new year with revelry, fun, music and dance. The night would certainly be young and one of abundance in food and drinks. People would be waiting for the clock to tick it's way towards the end of the year and then countdown would begin....ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five ,four, three, two, one....The new year would have rolled in with the din of new year wishes. Seconds would start ticking soon thereafter. Hadn't they ticked away last year?
Looking back on the year which has passed many of us wouldn't have noticed the seconds, minutes, hours, days and months passed by with us doing very little or nothing nor achieving anything.
Time is irreversible, we can never get back the moment which is lost. It is not even renewable like many sources of energy. Yet how many of us ponder on this fact.
Phrases about time are quite deceptive. At times we save time and at times we kill it. At times we have all the time in the world and at times we are unable to spare a minute. Yet time is fleeting, beyond our control, not going to wait for us come what may.
Our teachers in school have also taught us that ' Time and tide wait for no one'. However time is the single most important thing we tend to neglect. We often pay scant attention to the tasks to be done and procrastinate. These could be related to our family, health, work, friends or education.
Saint Kabir had wisely stated, " Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So ab, Pal Mein Pralaya Hoyegi, Bahuri Karoge Kab" asking us to shed laziness and lethargy and do things which were to be done tomorrow immediately, actually now.
Ironically, non-valuers of time not realizing its worth reworded the adage as" Aaj kare so kal kar , kal kare so parson , itni jaldi kya hain jab jeena hain barson".Such people probably fail to understand that time is not in our hands and also time lost can never be regained.
One of the most important tips given to us during our recent training by Director, LBSNAA, Mr.Sanjeev Chopda centred around the importance of time and its effective management. He emphasized on managing time efficiently so that one could do more things and also find time for doing things one enjoyed. One should never lose sight of time and therefore it was important to plan days, weeks, months and years and be the masters of.time instead of regretting after losing it. Strangely, time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
As Stephen Covey has said, "The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." When we invest in something it becomes something important, a thing which we learn to value. We must therefore set our goals diligently and invest time towards achieving them.
Honestly, it seems just the other day, when we were young or that our children were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking windows, spilling water, making noise. We have grown and so have our kids. Time goes by so quickly just as the year which has and like many others which would hasten to it's end. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour.
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
We are all adept in unwrapping presents and savoring it .Wouldn't it be wonderful if we learnt to savour the gift of time and use it fruitfully?
Hope you catch the pulse of every second in the coming year and make it memorable.....