THE TIME FACTOR; ARE YOU A FRIEND OR AN ENEMY?
BY: Lubnah Abdulhalim
As they say it,
time waits for no man and if you think of it, wasn’t it just Monday yesterday?
When did it get to Friday already? Days, hours, minutes, seconds fly past us
like wind and eventually leave us behind still wondering; when did it get so
late?
It all seems
like just yesterday when I got admitted to the kindergarten and how I really
cried for my mother, proceeding to primary school, secondary school to
adulthood whereby everyone expects you to be a responsible being. But who could
ever believe that those are so many years back and all what we are left with
are memories and probably regrets of what we should have done and what not.
As the clock goes
tick-tock tick-tock and as the finest sand trickles down the hour glass, did we
ever pause to imagine the wisdom behind our Creator creating us with the
abundance and yet still, limitation of time? It is for this reason that we must
be organized and arrange how to spend our time wisely. In the time factor, we
have two kinds of people; the organized being and the procrastinator.
An organized
individual knows how to use time wisely. He is the kind that since his youth
age already has a time plan of life. He would write down his dreams and goal
and set time limits for himself. He has set a time for everything; what age to
study, what age to work, when to get married, when to make a family, when to
retire etc. He knows when he is to wake up, when he is to prepare himself to go
for job, what time to leave the house and when to get there such that they
arrive in time. It is such people that always know how to divide their
schedules such that they have time for work, time for family, time for
entertainment and everything in such an orderly manner. They barely have
regrets in the time factor for they make the best use of it. They are the same
kind of people who made the best use of their childhood, playing all kind of
games and having fun all children need. They make use of their youth; creating
amazing memories, doing great things that will always be remembered by the
society, making time for studies and merry as well. When they got to the
working age they immediately start hustling and looking for ways to learn a
living. They get married and have a family when they are surely ready to take
such responsibilities and finally retire in peace with no regrets of the time
or opportunities they wasted.
The other kind
is the procrastinator; the lazy being. He is the type that races behind time
and expects the hour clock to miraculously stop for his sake. He would wake up
late and blame everyone for not waking him up. He takes everything at ease and
even when he is in a crisis, he wouldn’t refuse an invitation from friends to
party instead of looking for a solution to his problems. If he is a student, he
would procrastinate his study sessions each time for invalid reasons like
watching a TV series that they can’t miss or a movie. Such a person doesn’t
even have a purpose in life and such, ends up doing a lot of the wrong things
before finally realizing their goals in life. They get to regret a lot due to
the time and opportunities they wasted by being ignorant. They made so many
wrong choices and hanged around with the wrong lazy people who were but enemies
of time.
Time will never
advise us but instead it will only give us time to correct ourselves but this
is only possible if the Time-keeper himself wishes! So let us make a wise use
of the much or little time we have because we can never guess when the end of
our times will be!
