Thursday, May 12, 2011

Time...

It's amazing how we human come to realize the significance of time. Like, who is the first person who decides to quantify something so vague, something you cannot even see.. who decides how many mili-seconds are equal to one second, why 60 seconds make 1 minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day and so on. It strikes me to why is there such a person bearing to live so painfully, taking the effort of counting these precious moments of his or her life and make it calculable. Why?

But on another perspective, if THAT person decided to be lazy, and not to quantify the time, we won't be able to estimate the time of the day, won't be able to estimate when the day will dawn, and when will the sun set. Perhaps it will be a guessing game where we need to guess when will winter come about, when will summer break in...

And thanks to him (or her), we know how to look forward to certain moments in life, like a well anticipated holiday, or a day to actually meet up with the one you love, the one you longed to see. With each day passing by, you know as the grains of sand falls through the tiny outlet in an hourglass, you know you are inching closer to that day, to that moment, which, is the exact feeling that I have in me now.

It may take just a brief moment to meet and be with someone you love and then the wait begins again, which may be long and difficult. But you know, as the seconds tick by on the clock, the day for you and your loved one to meet again is getting closer.