Time, they say, moves ahead, in its constant speed. Time is unidirectional. It does not come back. It does not wait for anyone, however powerful. Time is the king of all powers. Time sees everything since it is there all the 'time', witnessing every occurrence, good or bad, desired or despised, loved or loathed. Perhaps this notion motivated Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza to open the famed BR Chopra serialisation of Mahabharat with 'I am time'.
Time also gets all the credit and discredit about events that befall people. Someone does well or is lucky or progresses or something good befalls him, the declaration is that he is having a good time. On the contrary, if a person suffers, he is having a bad time.
Work on time. Sleep on time. Make decisions on time. Complete assignments on time. Study and get degree on time. Get married on time. Have children on time. Fulfill your dreams on time. Live your life to the full when you have time because when your time finishes and the time to depart comes, you will not have the time to re-do or undo or do or not do those things.
A person in distress waits for good times ahead with the faith that everything, including this bad patch, has to end. A person in good times fears the end of that and the beginning of the bad phase. Someone with a grudge with someone else waits for the time to do what he could not do himself to avenge the other person. 'Time will punish if I cannot do' is the thought through the mind of the vanquished, begrudged or jealous.
Despite time being all powerful and the witness of all things that ever occur, people tend to ignore it, especially when they are in a position of privilege and have a disposition to misuse that privilege. They forget that time will come when they would have to be dethroned and thrown out of the pedestal. That they, made of dust, would have to be dust again. Time perhaps, has to show by the deed to make these people realize what time is. But alas, by the time they realize, they no longer have time to atone and redeem themselves.
Physicists say time can be stopped or reversed but that is still an enigma and confined to the equations and profound theories. If mankind could ever find a way to reverse time, one would also want to go back and undo all the bad things and redeem the world for the times to come. A paradox but still a dream.
But for now, time is just flowing forward as an incessant current of river flowing unidirectionally forward. And time for this random musings to stop.
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