Does Time Really Fly?

Antiphon in his chief work "On Truth" said that "Time is not a reality,but a concept or a measure". A common Buddhist thought considers it as an illusion, while  some others consider it as a metasensory concept!A sense which rides on top of all the other senses.A sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive. It’s there in the length of a song, the persistence of a scent or the flash of a light bulb.

The life of all the clocks, I think "Time" is King of the universe-been there before the universe began and will be there till it ends. Time- Dynamism personified, a dictator to the T and impervious to everything!

Ever seen time wait for anyone? You may wait for it, but it never waits for you. It makes you do things according to it's wish, but it never does what you wish. It's ruthless. It never stops when you want it to- Remember the time when you met your old friend after a long time and while you were just catching up on each other's lives, didn't the time just end? Ooh that romantic evening with your special one;Didn't it just fly at lightning speed! And that very important exam of your career and ooh the bell just rang and you thought there still was some time. To add to it, don't interesting and page turning novels end up fast and you are left thinking, "If only there were a few more pages".Damn the time!Heartless it really is. So does time really fly? Yes it does especially when you are having fun or don't want it to pass away soon.

 On the contrary, it becomes so stagnant at times! It will just refuse to pass on or it seems so. Not to talk about time flying, it will walk at a snail's pace when you want it to pass away soon. The dull and boring moments of life are always the longest and the exciting ones short lived. Illnesses tend to prolong.Don't you feel as if you've been lying on that darned bed forever if you are ill, and when you wish for a peaceful sleep on a busy day, the alarm will just buzz off even before you get some sleep. A boring lecture topped with a monotonous voice of the presenter will go on for ages while an interesting talk by an energetic speaker will end in a fleeting time. The uphill journey to reach your destination will seem excruciatingly long, while the return journey will be unwillingly short!

There is no rewind button for time as well ! How you wish to relive "the here today and gone tomorrow' joys of childhood or your college days. The absence of a rewind button is complemented by the absence of a forward button too. Remember your childhood days; Seeing grown ups around you and how you wished to grow up fast; how you wished to end the school soon and enter college; how you wished to finish graduation and get employed soon, but time never flew off then. It just took its usual course. Time can never be tamed. Such a wild nature it has!

How I wish now, that the time passes soon and I go back home. (Okay now you know, why I've been cursing time since then) But the time seems to have stopped. Days seem longer, exams haven't approached yet and seem far far away. Not to think of when they will end and when I will finally go...to the better times :)

I have nothing against the paradoxical nature of time. Infact this is what makes life a blend of good and bad times:) The good thing about time, as Ray Cummings, a science fiction writer pointed out is that it's something which keeps everything from happening at once :) So just enjoy the timely nature of time, while I get back to my work :-)

Jog on!