Importance of Time
Life is too short yet people spend it like a prodigal.
Most of us do not understand the true value of time, the most valuable gift we
have get from God. The waste of time we indulge in is really surprising.
Most of us have not been taught or told how to value and use this treasure which
is called time. The most precious seconds which can be used for something very
excellent are wasted away in thoughtless and purposeless things. If people care for their time then time cares for them. It is universally said that time is more
precious than money because money can be get back with time but time can’t be
get back with money. Time is universal and eternal. We all grow in time, live
in time and ultimately we perish in time. Time may not be defined exactly, but
somewhere we all know that what it is and how valuable it is.
Our life is like a bubble, a short morning dream,
brittle as glass and, therefore, we should take good care of it and make the
best out of it. We all want fame, success, happiness, and prosperity in life but
there are only a few people who able to achieve this because only they make the
best of their time. We all have 24 hours in a day whether one is rich or poor,
man or woman, he or she belongs to any religion or country time is the only
thing which is distributed equally to everyone. Time and tide wait for none.
They cannot be commanded. They are to be used in the best possible manner. We should
be prepared to make the best use of an opportunity when offered; Time once lost
can never be recovered. The flow of time is ceaseless and eternal and we all
are like small, insignificant and helpless particles in this endless and
continuous flow. Time is density. It is more powerful than monarchs, princes,
and rulers. These come and go but time is forever, eternal, inevitable, without
an end and without any beginning. Time is creation, birth, growth, ageing,
decay and also death. Nothing escapes time. Time is abstract but its footprints
are concrete and palpable. Time may be spent wisely or foolishly. The choice is
ones and so are its consequences. It is the basic building block that goes into
making our success, career, happiness, and status in society.
All successful men and women have been a great
economizer of time. They never squandered their evenings, mornings, afternoons
or nights but used them in the best possible way. This helped them to not only
find a place in the history of mankind but could also change its course. They
have left their footprints on the sands of time.
We should try to follow these great and successful people,
the heroes of history, the guiding stars of humanity.
It is foolish to think that we can make up for lost time or recover it. The past is dead and the future unborn. There are no tomorrows
and yesterdays. It is only today which is important. It is really sad that
people spent their present in repenting over the uselessly spent past. We waste
our precious moments either grieving over the past blunders or making castles in
the air for the future. In other words, we waste today in fretting over the
dead yesterday, or in day-dreaming about tomorrow, which yet does not exist at
all. Men are great, good and famous in the proportion of the time best utilized.
All men and women of substance make the best use of time and opportunity. In
this context, it has been beautifully said that ‘Time wasted is mere
existence, used is life’. How many of us are really alive in this sense is the
million-dollar question? Time is eternal, boundless, and endless and without
either end or beginning but for every individual, it is very limited, finite and
short-lived. You can neither borrow nor steal nor earn time. When we say ‘A
stitch in time saves nine’, we say the same thing idiomatically. A work done in
time is time earned; a decisive action at a given moment is vital. Successful
men and women seldom talk about leisure because they hardly have any time to
spare. Their every moment is well planned. It is the idler who has sufficient
time to gossip, to indulge in loose talk, to rue the lost past and to build
castles in the air for the future.
Proper use of time means the right use of an
opportunity. Remember, time is money. It is precious and it never waits for
anyone. Opportunities are few and far between. That is why they are rare and
called golden. The wise make the best use of them when they occur. Those of us,
who miss them or fail to recognize them in time, have to repent all our life.
It also implies that we should be punctual and regular in our work-schedule.
Nothing should be done in fits and starts. We are often plagued with lethargy,
passivity, indecision, procrastination, and vacillation and these are our
greatest enemies. We should always keep in mind that we have to make the best
out of our limited precious time.