Time...

A long time back, I had read somewhere - "Time and Tide wait for none..". Today years gone by and gained wisdom (hopefully!) concur to this thought.. and as I start to think more on this. It has been a while, since I wrote on my page..and yet it seems like yesterday when I was writing almost daily.. almost yesterday when I had come from a exciting day trip to Bournemouth. To tell you a fact, it was exactly a month ago.

As I start digging up my past, a common theme cuts across - It seems like the last week, had just started and now I am already into the middle of this week.. It was only a few weeks before that I was working on some assignments day in and day out.. and that was 2 months ago. And those days when it was snowing and everything covered in white.. for a change, Warwick seemed a different land- was not so long ago.. and I keep backtracking.. It was not so long ago that I came to Warwick - with dreams in my eyes and inspiration in my heart, only to realize that it was nearly 1o months ago. I think of my first job and those long nights working as a software engineer, struggling to make our first project delivery.. about 2 years ago. And friends, those endless nights in university- first degree, friends I havent seen for ages and yet it feels not so long ago. What I am realizing is that how quickly things have moved on in my life.. and I doubt that its the age..

However, there is an antithesis to it as well.. There are times that things have happened rather recently, and then I wonder.. that it seemed like a long long time back. For example, I had my final interview for a job in mid april - now thats only 3 months back.. but again seems like it was long long back. In the same vein, as I typed above, I saw my family 10 months ago, but i am understating this when I say it seems longer than 1o years. I have not spoken to my family on web-cam chat for 2 days, and I feel its been ages..

So what am I saying? the conclusion maybe is (thats my caveat!) that things you cherish, you like, occasional occurrences ranging from once to something that happen less frequently than daily from your past seem to stay with you longer and even though time keeps rolling forward, they stay fresh in your ming and you look back at them with a smile on your face and fondness in your heart. But things that are integral to your daily life, something that you dearly close - you think that you cant live without, seems like it happened only like yesterday.

Having attempted to draw this entry to a close, and yet been unsuccessful in coming to a reasonable conclusion - although it seems like an interesting topic to pursue a Psychology PhD in, I am reminded that I have been lagging on my disseration, which seems like I started only yesterday, but has been 7 months since I gathered my articles for it.. hehe. I guess this is another aspect, sometimes you want the time to stop, so you can catch up with all those things that you should have done, but you havent for one reason or the other (like I desperately did for the assignment I submitted this monday!) OR turn back so you can redo a thing better.. (like today's golf round I played)

A harsh but important lesson to learn has been that you gotta stay up to speed with time.. It will keep moving, and one has to make sure that they do the things they need to do when its time to do them.. Coz as much as you may wish, neither can you turn back time nor will it wait for you!!

Written and articulated in memories of a loved one.. whom I haven't thought about in decades, haven't spoken to in centuries, haven't met in more than a millenium and haven't hugged & kissed in only God knows how long.. you know my time frames now!!