Time and Tide wait for no man

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep”
These famous lines of Robert Frost explicitly reflect the realities of life. “Time” has been a centre of attraction for many proverbial expressions. The fictional characters propagate the concept of Time-machine. Bollywood is also taken up by it, producing films which not only encapture time to run as per their command but also alter it to run fast or slow. Love story 2050 is one of the latest flicks to show this. But why is “Time” being so much talked about?
The answer lies in the fact that “Time is uncontrollable by man.” The same man who has learned to produce test tube babies, insert a chip in human brain, built hotels on heavenly planets and moon, cur the deadly of diseases, has not been able to conquer time. So, the irony of life is Time keeps running and moving at its own standard pace. An interesting observation is it runsat a speed constant for all. The poetic side of me takes a grip over my mind to comment “Time is unbiased to all masses: rich, poor, young and old.” Time constantly belabors mankind to learn this lesson from it. But why is an efficient use of Time so much talked about?
The answer is crystal clear: the activities of entire universe depend on time. Sales targets are given for fixed time, offices open and close at fixed time, even our salaries are paid after a fixed time. As we move from place to place “Time may Differ” but it will never stop. Our watch may give up to dead cells but “time” goes on without tiredness and boredom. Analyzing the axiom “time and Tide wait for no man”, it can be said it holds true since centuries.
During primitive stages of human evolution, noon and night became time. And the mighty sun never ceased to rise and set every day, year on year. For centuries sun became the metron of time, guiding mankind to eat and sleep. Mankind evolved over the century and even the measurement of time changed but time, in itself, never came to a standstill. Over the centuries Time was digitalized. But it was never mastered by man to be able to control over.
Since decades time is as momentary as sand in our hands. it slips and slips, the more we try to hold it back. “It will never wait for anyone. It never has.”
So, hoping that time waits for us is a futile attempt. We have to run to match the pace of time. As I sit here and write this, there will be someone fighting with time to survive, someone, someone who would be challenging his own time as a cyclist and someone who would be sulking without the realization of time running away.
The same time and the same days have never come back though “good times” and “bad times” have. The challenge lies in making the best out of the time, of each moment, of each minute and of each second. When the whole nation goes to bed with the feeling in heart “ I could not have performed better than this”, it is then, in true sense, can it be said that we have started valuing time.
We are the creators of our own future. Its up to us to decide how we use it.
Had time and tide waited for man. Tsunami would never have occurred! Lives would never have lost and pogrom would not become the everyday phenomenon.
“what is there is a minute?”
Ask the girl who got late to see her dying mother.
“what is there in an hour?”
Ask the man who lost the fight.
“what is there in an hour?”
Ask the man who lost his flight.
We all are controlled with constraints of time. The field of “Time management” and diploma related to it, do not teach us to alter time, it rather teaches us to manage the given time.
“time and tide wait for no man”. The axiom will hold true till the time machine is invented. And till then accelerate your pace to run with times.
“Time does not lay in our hands, we do in its”