Time

On Tuesday 16th July I experienced a couple of hours of panic-driven madness. I was working on the logistics of one of my projects, which by the way is a samiti promotional video, and I was quite content with the plan I’d laid out for myself for that evening. It soon transpired that this plan of mine was not to be, for one of the key links in the chain had fallen through. In my anxiety I could not think clearly, but in the end I blundered into making a new, rather flawed plan. Having literally missed the train, I spent ages lamenting the failure of the evening and the fact that the targets I had set for myself would not be met. And running round my brain were those odious words, “should’ve", "would’ve", "could’ve”. What a waste of time! Thinking about it now, in my present state of relative level-mindedness, it is starting to dawn on me just how often time is ill-used. From the beginning of this Sangh Internship Programme we had been supplied with bounteous tasks to get done, which on paper seems ridiculous and frankly impossible to achieve in so short a time period. Having said so, by taking into consideration my behaviour of the Tuesday just gone, I can see that though I was putting a lot of effort into the work, I was actually getting very little done. Instead of acknowledging that nothing more could be done for that one task and moving on to the next, I wasted time faffing about- I just couldn’t let go! Writing this now, I am reminded of what Eknath Ranade writes in Sadhana of Service:
“Life is a gymnasium where you have to display the best that you possess within the short time allotted to you.”
Whether its a hundred years, fifty years, one year, or even a month, the time we have when we have the capacity to work is precious, and not a moment should go by when you simply think that “there’s always tomorrow…”