The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time

All my leisure time is now fully occupied with the various projects--both personal and work-related--that I have been pursuing. There's so much to do in life and I am always conscious of the fact that Time is finite. Wasting time is the greatest sin that one could ever commit.

I always imagine that the time that we have is like a huge bunch of coins in our pockets. We obviously have to spend it wisely. Only trouble is there's also a hole in our pocket and coins are dropping out one by one without us realising it. We could one day wake up to find that our pockets are already empty.

The sands of Time are slowly slipping down the hourglass...

Is blogging a waste of time then? Yes and no. Yes, because sometimes we are so over-obsessed with our own blog that we waste too much time fiddling around with it, making one small cosmetic change after another--a bit like preening in front of the mirror.

No, because blogging is like writing in own's journal. You record your thoughts and views; you remind yourself of things that are important; you think aloud and as a result see things much clearer; you solicit views from other people and you learn and grow in the process. For some of us too, it is a chance to learn a bit of Web technologies, which could be useful in our career.

In the movie Red Dragon, FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton), impatient with questioning Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) said:

"I don't have much time!"

Hannibal Lecter, ever so cool and sinister, replied:

"Oh but I do....I have oodles"

Unlike Hannibal the Cannibal, languishing behind bars, most of us don't have oodles of time. But we should also not live life with the desperation of a man gasping for his last breath of air. LIke what I've mentioned in a previous blog entry, there's a natural rhythm to things in life, we must know how to listen to this rhythm and live life in harmony with it. Rushing here and there like a blind rat and working feverishly without rest will only increase our chances of dying young through heart attack.

Balance is the key. And balance is the most difficult thing to achieve in life. But we'll try, as the Sands of Time continue to slip quietly through the hourglass...