Time after time
A day contains 24 hours which in hindsight seems a substantial amount of time however as life passes by and you begin to succumb to the process of aging…24 hours passes by almost as quickly as a second. Now what this does is that the highlight of an individual’s life becomes “time” and how well an individual can exploit it. Imagine that, the complexity, the beauty of a person revolves around the focal point of such an intangible concept like time. We are governed by what we are to achieve in a given period. We are measured by how well we perform against time. We fear when we will run out of time. Time is the epitome of humanity. But this is no revelation, it is a fact that has been embedded time after time (that was a very strategic pun intended), so what is the big deal?
The whole reason why I went on an entire tangent about time is that I’ve learned a couple of invaluable lessons that I think would help rid this fear of not being able to keep up with time consistently. I’ve always had the consistent urge to be in control of every forsaken second in my life. Sounds incredibly stressful, I know (trust me I really do know). Fundamentally, ( I’ve come to realize my obsession with this word, forgive me) a human cannot control the likes of time but what can be controlled is how we process the time given to us. Basically our ability to exploit it.
Now in all seriousness, there are about two ways to go about exploiting our time: we do something now or we do something tomorrow. Before I jump into it any further, let me just break it down contextually because I feel like doing something “tomorrow” has such a bad connotation to it. So let me start with the latter: doing something tomorrow in this instance indicates more of a planned process. “I’ll schedule a meeting for tomorrow.” “I’ll hit the gym at 10.00 am tomorrow.” Now, this doesn’t explicitly mean you are not going to get to it with my context, you will just not be getting to it this very moment. This in particular translates to the concept of “thinking before committing an act” In terms of doing it today, what I mean is this very second, there is no underlying process, no mental preparation. Just an overbearing urge that has to be fulfilled (sounds incredibly kinky but I wasn’t intending it to be so). A lot more spontaneous endeavours is what occurs here.
With that in mind, the reason I’m going about this is that realistically I’m a very “do it tomorrow” kind of person, in the sense that I plan and schedule my hours, my days, my weeks, my months to the very second (I am Monica reincarnated or so I’ve been told). I am meticulous beyond doubt with how I spend my time and it drives me insane when things don’t go according to this mental schedule I have painted out. And yet almost entirely ironic, the greatest things in my life came out from me just deciding to go ahead and do things without any schedule prior.
Let me explain, before getting into the university I am in currently, I had a couple of options and obviously a sane person would logically evaluate and plan out the little details to research to go about choosing the right school for them. I genuinely just closed my eyes and with a flick of the finger, I decided my faith for the next four years. Funny enough, I’ve never enjoyed school or schooling for that matter more now (however I am aware that this could have taken a truly drastic turn). Another example, I was once at about 80 kgs, a 5ft 4 in girl weighing at 80 kgs is bordering being overweight. I’d tell myself constantly to schedule gym in my daily endeavors. That never happened, what happened though is one day I woke up and felt that my current physical state was not something a nineteen-year-old should be living with and went out for a run. Through constant sweats, change of eating habits, I now weigh at 57 kgs, still 5ft 4 in, and just a tad bit older at 21.
What I mean by this entire rant is actually the fact that, yes it’s important to schedule your day, it has been scientifically proven to boost productivity and fully help an individual seize the day. But sometimes, to fully be able to exploit time in our dire lifetimes, we’ve got to just get up and do it. Because honestly speaking, I believe you genuinely do beat the time if you’ve managed to obtain your very own version of success and still have some fun here and there. But alas, it is also okay if it’s not done today and rather done tomorrow. I’m no guru of life, I’m just barely getting the hang of it.
Breathe…..We’ve come this far already, what’s a little bit more?
