TIME PLEASE....

The sands of the hourglass are cascading in full furies..!
The month of august has rapidly succumbed to the untiring traveller called TIME..!
The past month or so has gone by at such rapid pace, that I spent more time wondering where the lost time was..never realising that I 'lost' more time pondering over the 'lost' time..
For the first time, I was hit by the full impact of what it meant to be in a ''race against time''..!
How would it feel to be constantly under the impression that time is racing away from u..?
As though each moment had more important things to do..?!?
Especially at a time, when u'r wondering ''what can be more important than PG prep..?''

But, Alas! Mr Time doesn seem to concur with you..

Time bears all..time heals all & time tells all..!
All in good time..
All on its own time..
just in the nick of time..
In life and in all things, all you have to do is give it TIME..!
Cliched..? Yes..
True..? Naaaa....

Truth is, Time offers no luxuries in life..
Never enough time to seek some crucial answers..
Never enough time to change certain things in the past..
Never enough time to seek redemption or to undo the wrongs done..
Never enough time to chase ur crazy dreams..
Never enough time to 'miss' your friends(let alone catching up with them)..
Never enough time to watch BODYGUARD..
Never enough time to update ur FB status..
Never enough time to read HARRISON'S principles of INTERNAL MEDICINE..;-)

All u get to do is a perfunctory burial of the past and a barely passable 'pretence' of living in the present, while the demons of the half-buried past, in a show of enormous 'patience' wait just beneath the surface to pounce upon at the tiniest signs of vulnerability..! (which are often triggered by something as naive as the 'smell of wet earth' or a question on ''restless leg syndrome''..!)
What can you do to change it??Absolutely NOTHING..!
TIME's not tangible - so you can't punch it when you're mad at it..!

Yeah, u can swear at it..but then after some time, u run out of swear words..

U can shout at it on top of ur voice, only to end up with a sore throat..

You can vent out ur anger & frustration in the form of writing,( no prize for guessing, that's what i'm at..;-)), only to realise you have lost more time on it..

But the endless tirade of time goes on unscathed by ur trivial rumblings..

For a moment I go back to my childhood.. Memories..!
My one and only defence against the frenzy might of time..!
Yes, that small 'cache' where i can safely lock away some wonderful times, feeling secure in my knowledge that TIME shall never be able to steal them from me..

I see a younger self of me..
A cheerful chiruppy little devil, bubbling with enthusiasm,
the eyes shone with the dreams of future,
shoulders, unburdened by the pressures of expectations,
The sprightly lush of black that prospered on ma head..
And a trace of the resilience smoldering within..


The younger me, senses my presence, looks back at me with a smile of reassurance, crosses his hands to make a 'T' and shouts aloud.. ''TIME-PLEASE......''

PS..dont mind the spelling mistakes or the lousy grammar..if u have indeed managed to read the whole thing, u must understand, this wasnt written for want of literary acclaim..