How I wish i had those extra hours

So, time as we all feel is something God didn’t grace us with. Ask a student like me, he will tell you the importance of time. Although we will while away the whole semester doing nothing, time will never seem to be in profusion. Spending that extra hour at your friends place and your family almost gets fidgety. That 5 extra minutes we wish we had to play the last few pool strokes. Or even that one minute that we begged out strange impious teacher to give to finish the last answer.

Time has its importance for every one of us. Marcus Aurelias had well said:

Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.

And so it is. If we look back and speculate, we would probably get millions of those instances where that extra minute could have turned the results of battles(exams of course being one :p), converted the triumphs into losses, made a debacle into a stroke of excellence. Well, we really never had that extra minute…did we?

Life has moved fast and with growing developments technology has given man a zillion slaves who try and save our time. But we still never had plenty to fulfil our dreams, cherish our love, fathom our greatness. Life they say is a strange little obscurity where those who talk most about love- have it, those who talk most about wealth- have it, those who talk most about prosperity- have it. So yes, people also who talk most about not having time also have it. Time is an important entity in life and the more you respect it, the more it respects you back.

Lord chesterfield has very wit fully written to his drifting son: “I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for hours will take care of themselves.”

So obviously, time we feel flies away of us because we don’t seem to care. We feel we have forever. And howmuchever we try to get better, we feel helpless, at loss of motivation. But we love the way we live and like everyone, we also need more time.

So I too need those two extra hours in my life.

Everyone will have their own opinions about spending those extra hours where they want to spend it with their families, do some extra work-earn money, get onto that much awaited sleep, or probably stretch a little more at the over expensive gym. I too have a few things I would like to do:

1. I would want to join an NGO which promotes education for the destitute kids like MAD(Make a difference). I had been working at this organization for 6 months but I had to leave for time complexities. I would wish to rejoin it. Although I keep teaching needy students in Manavya an AIDS rehabilitation facility at Bhugaon, but that’s very occasional. I would wish I could do it more frequently, rather daily. While teaching these kids I always felt that  all they ever needed is a little inspiration, love and an open heart to talk to. 6 months in Salvation Army orphanage with these 50 odd destitute kids was the best time I ever had in my life. Often one would question that what do you get in return. I would answer that all that I get in return is to bring some smiles in the faces of my fellow brothers whose lives were darkened and made pale before they even understood what it is like to sleep on a mother’s lap. What it is like to open that wretched bag to see what dad got from office. To feel the love of rakshbandhan. To wear new clothes in diwali and to climb on a fathers back and see the world from the highest place in the world. Life at times is cruel. I feel I am a very privileged son of India and I feel its my responsibility to also bring a little happiness in those lives who were also born like me-free men of our country.

2. The other thing which I would wish to do is learn a little music. Time and again my music teacher in school told me that I have a wonderful voice. But never really had I had a chance to ever train myself. So yes, if I ever get those two extra hours, once or twice a week like a very good Bengali boy, I would like to go to the Babumoshai Music teacher and learn to be a good singer. It would be an added incentive as it would augment my odds of getting married which at this time seems pretty frail. :p

3. I would also like to help my mother with her chores and take her out at times. After being in college we hardly go out together. Its been months now we went together for some shopping and high tea. So yes, once I get those extra hours, I will make it a point to take her out. I would also wish her to come with me while I teach at some under privileged school or orphan facility so that they also get to spent some time with my mother. I am sure my fellow students would enjoy my mom’s company and my mother too will be a little proud of me.

With these dreams in my mind, I wish I get those extra hours in life, so that I can create a difference to the lives of few and fulfil my moral and obligatory duties as a human and a son. And as I write through I rapidly also feel that even in the absence of those extra hours, I will try to do all that I want to, to make a distinction as I truly feel that will make my country a little better place to live in. With the following lines of Sir Yeats I wish to conclude:

The years like great black oxen tread the world,

And God the herdsman goads them on behind,

And I am broken by their passing feet.

Hope you had a nice read. Adios!!