‘Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life itself is made of' (Benjamin Franklin).
While planning involves prudent allotment of time, time-consciousness refers to the ability to know when time is going. Your destiny may depend on this seemingly un-important ability. Whether or not you will arrive on time for an interview, a contract bidding, an exam or even your wedding is dependent upon your consciousness of the time.
While planning involves prudent allotment of time, time-consciousness refers to the ability to know when time is going. Your destiny may depend on this seemingly un-important ability. Whether or not you will arrive on time for an interview, a contract bidding, an exam or even your wedding is dependent upon your consciousness of the time.
A man that knows when to start and when to stop will surely command respect. If anything bad will be said or written about you, let it not be ‘time-waster’. Let anyone that wants to make it know that life is an aggregation of time units which, once wasted can never be recovered. Athletes, especially sprinters would understand this better. A late start of one second might result in total failure.
In the 2004 Olympics at Athens, Greece, the British 4 x 100m relay anchor leg finished just 0.1s (a tenth of a second, less than enough time to blink your eyes) before Maurice Greene, the US anchor leg. Obviously, the difference between gold and silver could be as small as that! World female 100m hurdles champion lost out in the same Olympiad because she lost some seconds when she tipped and fell over her first hurdle. She just looked helplessly at the others as they forged ahead.
‘The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will . . . Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute in all the … small uncaring ways’
- Sidney N. Bremer; Steve Benet
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