“I want to do blah-blah-blah, but I don’t find time.”
“So much to do, so less time.”
“I wish I had 48 hrs in a day.”
Have you heard these on a daily basis? If not, listen to
yourself.
Let’s face it. We were all born into 24 hr days. Now how we
use it is totally our prerogative. If we are blaming someone or circumstances
for stealing time from us, then we better put our life under the microscope.
One need not go to a time-management course and study
Stephen Covey’s 4 quadrants of time nor download & maintain a time-log app
to spot the pilferage of our time. Just a simple question asked constantly to ourselves
will do the trick: “Is this the best way
to live my next one hour?”
Let’s introspect this: We get plenty of time to read &
forward Whatsapp messages? We don’t miss out updating our status (usually pictorially)
on FB. We take the liberty of naming those 15 min breaks for a smoke &
gossip as stress busters. We love to oversleep and console ourselves that sleep
is an important member of our daily schedule. We let our fingers frantically
tap (or is it swipe these days?) the
smartphone well into the dark hours, flirting with girlfriends. We also spend
hours calling up friends to bitch about the horrible boss and the screwed up
work life. We spend weekends loafing around the malls or cooling heels in the
multiplex. We go on long blind drives and call it the liberation of self. We
pour over our computers figuring out which movie is hitting the 100 cr mark
& who is dating whom these days. Oh yeah, we also day dream for eternity &
silently pass it of as meditation or self-time.
Now get out of your body. Stand back and watch your body go through
the routine of life. Is it spending time the way it is to be spent or is it just
flowing along the river of life? Just running the rat race not knowing what we
are running from nor what we are running towards? Is there really work to do or
are we acting busy to please our bosses, or for showing off at home? Are the
chats & Skype calls productive or is it just being used cos it’s there. Are
we browsing & downloading crap just because the wi-fi is free? Have we
fallen blindly in love with being busy? Are we getting uneasy when we have to
just sit in one place doing nothing: our hands crave for the phone? Our lips twitch
to start a conversation? Our eyes search for cues? Our minds race towards wild
thoughts?
Have we side-lined relationships in the pretext of time
crunch?
Are we embracing restlessness?
Have we ceased to live in the moment?
Are we slowly getting sucked into the black hole of busyness?
Remember: black hole is a one way ticket…and so is the
ticking time.
