Sunday, December 31, 2006

on the time line

This is probably the appropriate time for this article ( it's on the time line ?? ;) ). Time & agian I've told people that i dont like the time line. Why should we try to fit everything into the time line ? When ur 16 should have done this this and that and when ur 25 ....
I've been reading R K Narayans awefully a lot these days .. in one of his books ( the English Teacher) he talks about the concept of time for the departed souls. He talks about his wife ( she is dead) & that for them there is no concept of time- in the sense that there is no gap between thought & action. Actually , thats pretty vague stuff , especially from Narayan . Anyway , I digress ( i've been sitting through a lot of lectures of Dr Sair ;) ) .
Life we be a lot simpler and less presurizing if we did not try to fit in everyhting we do / want to do into the time line . After all time is something we invented ourself , how do you know that one second is one second after all ? It's been defined so.
Hope everybody has a good year ahead and is able to fit in all their wishes,hopes and desires into the time line 2007 ( i dont mean to be sarcastic .. it's just that i find the whole idea very graphically appealing ). Amen :)