Gag bag

The clock ticks by.
Time flies past, zooms past,
not waiting a moment for me.
To make up or the time I lost.

With each stroke,
my heartbeat in perfect sync.
The count keeps reducing,
Killing me, while still in my pink.

Why do I keep count,
Why do I race with time?
Why not let it do its own work,
and me carry on mine?

Live with time, don't fight with it.
Use it for good, work more on it.
Cause every moment well used I have learned,
Is time not lost but earned.

Stupid observation I came across. I was seeing the timings of my posts on the blog, and I suddenly realized that most of my posts (barring like 6 maybe) are after 11:30 pm... Till like 3 am. And many of these are like in the time slot of 12:30 - 12:40 am. I mean its really very strange to observe that so many of the posts have taken place in such a short time slot of 10 minutes. Well of course, from now on I will be more conscious about this, since now I will be wary of it. Hence like I will maybe purposely post it in this slot. So after this, it can't be a very fair thing to observe. But whatever it is, the timings till now certainly amazed me...

This is something very stupid. But it just occurred to me. Suppose my clock is set to a time say 5 mins ahead of the actual IST. Now a little lag or lead is bound to occur. Similarly there may be someone else with a lag of say 5 mins. Many of us set the time after checking with our own friends, or sometimes is the aeroplane, when the pilot announces the time on landing. That may be another 5 mins lagging the already lagging time. This way, it can go on and on, and I wonder if like in one time zone itself, there are like people living with time gaps of upto 40 mins or so. Considering this above condition, I think this is quite possible. Now still, how do we check with each other. I think hence, the best way to like co-ordinate is to tell the time gap rather than the actual time. That way, people will be on time even if like their clock times differ by many mins. For example, if you want to fix a meeting or a game of football, instead of saying meet at 5:15, we should say, meet after 45 mins exactly. So we should give the relative timings rather than absolution. Actually, considering the complexity in everything now-a-days, I think relativity everywhere is quite necessary. To avoid lots of confusion.
In short, the time lags or leads which I think arre present, should not lead to problems. No matter what time zone you live in, the time you follow will be the time for you...

‘Be on tekdi at 5:30…’, ‘Tomo morn futbal at 7…’,’ B in B in 8 mins…’ and so on.

These are some of the SMSs received (a little variation in the time and place and the activity) almost everyday. And it’s funny, because even for the small time lag, no one ever pays top priority to any of these timings.

No one and I mean no one ever arrives at the time decided. And its somehow a understood thing that when someone says a certain time, that everyone arrives a little* late. Each one expects this way that when he/she arrives, all will be there so that he/she won’t have to wait for anyone. Only to find out that he/she has arrived the earliest. And I don’t know how, but this goes on be it any thing. Now for a game of football suppose, who ll like to arrive late? But no, still people break records and arrive 45 mins after the decided time. Till then hardly 2-3 people arrive, just sitting and giving missed calls.

There is no reason for its origin. Though I guess we can think of some options. Like some people meet regularly and there is one person who is the eternal late comer. So to adjust with him/her, so that no one feels that he/she arrives too early, people start coming a little late. This way now all are on time relative to one another. So that now they can do the thing they intended without any lag.

Now everyone of this group has been affected with this disease (or can we say habit), so that they start spreading it. Like they say, one bad apple in the basket spoils the rest.

Now how late can one be tolerated? It’s a relative question again, but I guess it depends on the purpose of the get together. Also, is there a way to tackle this?

I don’t understand yet another thing, that if everyone knows that when a time of say 6 pm is decided, and that all are going to arrive at 6:15 then why not say 6:15 itself, and arrive then right on time. How long can we go on extending this, without getting caught up in the recursive nature of this method, that whenever our mind analyzes a certain time, it automatically adds the lag and then processes on it. If there as such really exists this algorithm, then can't there ever be a stage that we state a time right and the mind analyzes it right so that all arrive at exactly the time stated?

Okay, still this isn’t all that the problem is. Even with by afflicting each and every person, we all start arriving 15 mins late, so that still, all arrive on time relative to one another (a little here and there of course). So its all well and good.

But then there will always be this one person, who says he/she still wants to arrive the last. So now he/she starts adding another 5 mins. Now he/she won’t be the only one of course, so that he/she will spread this disease to all the others. So that the mind of each starts adding 20 mins, instead of 15.

Will this too stop at some time? The additions will go on I guess, so that people start arriving more and more late. But this addition mostly is decreasingly exponential, so that after a few iterations I think it will be small enough to neglect. I don’t know the actually case, but I do hope this is the case. Else time really will have no meaning.

I guess what you can do is talk it amongst yourselves and start understanding each other better so that you can avoid this at the bud stage itself. It will be difficult for you to handle it if you don’t heed it well in advance. Or else, just go with the crowd as usual.

Nothing much to ponder over actually. It’s a hard reality, so just accept it.

Santa said ,”Lets meet at 12 exaclty?”
I said, ”Par aapke 12 kab bajenge?”

*Little- the term little is relative here. It varies from 10-15 mins to half an hour or so, or sometimes not at all…