Want Time The Most - But Often Use It Worst

The timing of knowing basics of life should happen early, yet most of us realize them late.  Strangely, everything non-academic is often ignored or inadequately taught. To accept that it is better late than never opens the way to better living.

Time is a measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues. Saying “I can do anything” may be fair, but one cannot do everything - at least not at the same time. Those who claim to multi-task are in fact task switching: doing multiple things in rapid successions. Brain is wired to do one thing at a time. Multitasking weakens memory, reduces cognition and decreases productivity. Studies claim only 2 to 2.5% percent people can truly multi task. There is more to time than simply increasing the number of tasks within it.

Perfect timings and good execution bring good results - a comedian knows it. The sequence and timings of ingredients on fire can make a dish deliciously yours or a burn disaster. For an athlete, a split second determines breaking or missing a record. For a patient in an emergency timing can mean life or death. Honest feelings and poor timings can make the most painful combination. Every time is perfect in its own way; what matters how we capture it.

Time qualifies as much more than nothing, something or everything. In the storm of time, one tends to divide life into good times and bad. The good time often passes quietly; bad timings is visible from afar. The true storm lies in unproductive engagement – excessive social media scrolling, procrastination, gossip, mindless multitasking and draining relationships. 

Why miss out on teachings of the wise if they can help refine how we perceive and use our time? The timing of making a change is as important as knowing that a change is needed. Waste your money, and you lose money: waste your time, and you lose yourself. In all things, observe due measure and right timing.

Any Time can be the right time - even delays and rejection carry purpose. We often fail to see that they may be directing us towards something better. Mistaking time as being solely responsible for delivering material success, wealth, and pleasures leads to imbalance-and thus anxiety, stress, regret, and worry.

A realization comes one day why time is perfect, why things had to happen exactly the way they did, to redirect you to where you always meant to be. Trust the process of your path, evolution and growth – it’s all-divine timing.

Relationships, too, pass through emotional climates – strained, ignored, or broken. The One who was meant to be your eternal Support is often your least nurtured, we question Gods timing with our hopeless interpretations.

Time brings all that truly belongs to you - all you need is patience and trust. Life is just not about your ambitions, goals, worldly acquisitions it is also about using your human birth as the only time to meet the Divine. What is meant for you won’t come rushed or delayed - it arrives when your soul is ready not your ego. Don’t mistake God’s patience for His absence.

Gurbani says “Fruitful is that moment, and fruitful is that time, when one is in love with the True Lord. Suffering and sorrow do not touch those who have the Support of the Name of the Lord. Grasping him by the arm, the Guru lifts them up and out, and carries them across to the other side. SGGS Ang44