Time and Tide wait for None

No one is so powerful to stop the march of time – this is what the phrase ‘time and tide wait for none’ means. It signifies the importance of time. Time is a precious commodity. It’s as important as life itself. How do we define time? We often refer to the term ‘lifetime’. What makes a life is not the whole life at one go. Rather it consists of moments stitched together. We should live life in parts, so to say. Live a whole lifetime in a whole day. Live as if there’s no tomorrow. This doesn’t mean being rash. But start enjoying your life. Opportunity is here, similarly, time is here and now. Time should never be wasted.

We have to move ahead with the time to conquer it. Generally what we do is that we move where life takes us. Thus, we allow to be driven by time, and to dominate us. If we stand still we will reach nowhere and time won’t stop for us, to take us along.

Men may come and men may go but time stays on just like ‘the brook’. But, again just as water is never the same in a flowing river, time too never repeats itself. Time once past cannot be recalled. Time doesn’t give you chances. There are no retakes in real life. Time teaches you with experience but it has been the cruelest teacher. Why? Because it never waits and you can’t change your actions later. No matter how many pains you take, you cannot use the ‘undo’ command in life and edit again.

Another quality of time is its uniformity and impartial nature. It works at the same pace for the wealthiest and for the poorest. An hour means sixty minutes both for a king and a pauper. All are slaves of time. What we can do is make the most of the time at hand, as the old proverb goes ‘make hay while the sun shines’ – Kaatrulla pothe thuutrikkoL.

We can broadly divide time in to three categories – past, present and future. But actually time is indivisible. It’s a wonder how soon a past is created. You wink the eye and the moment is past. You will never find back the time wasted by you, there will only be tales of past. Future too is not revealed to us. We never know what is going to happen. ‘There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip’. So we should live in the present. It is only in the present that the essence of life is contained. We cannot depend on either the past or future which is not in front of us. Live life as it unfolds itself before us, that is, in the form of present.

There is a time and place for everything. So when opportunity knocks at your door don’t turn around. Grab the offer with both hands. Act spontaneously. The moment you act will be the right time. You never know when the time runs out or the tide turns unfavorable. Time is like the sand fast pouring out of your hands. It is just like the onion being layer after layer and in the end you find there’s nothing remaining. It’s now or never.

The great saying "Time and Tide Wait for None" is extremely correct. If we have to complete some task we should complete it as soon as possible because we never know what can happen in the next minute. So do it right now and never say that let the right time come. We never know "JO AAJ HAI KAL HO NA HO” means Indru iruppathu naLai irukkalaam; illaamalum pokalaam.