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Last week, I was bedridden due to Dengue. Well, it was a rough week. Had to visit the hospital twice a day to get a saline infusion for faster recovery. While I laid back for the saline unit to drip down into my blood, some thought struck me hard which I kept thinking for days. Twice a day, as I lay down on the patient bed, the nurse administered the saline, setting the drip at a set amount while casually conversing with me. He used to set the drip to the same frequency every day and leave to attend to other patients. Exactly 5 minutes before the saline was at its final drops, he came and removed it. On point This happened twice a day for about a week. The fascinating part was after setting the saline up, he would come back exactly 5 min before completion, checking the level maybe once in between. His sense of time flow was on point with maybe an error of 1-2 minutes. The first time I thought that it was just their daily task and they got habituated to it. Still, getting habituated to ...

These days, I keep reminding myself that... Things Take Time Time. We all think it is of abundance, but in reality, it is finite. Seconds pass by without reminding us that they don't come back. I don't want to talk about the things we do for fun, but the things we would like to get done as soon as possible.  Of course, we all have at least one thing that takes a hell of a time and we hate it. Either it's your exam which goes on for weeks making you bear the stress for that long, or it's your career which is taking years to grow. The finite time keeps rolling down in front of your eyes without showing any visible progress. It's hard and tiring. We don't have a choice. But, do hold on. Walking on a path for 8 years and you taking a daring step to picking a different one now will be difficult. Backlash, self-doubt, and fear are all consequences. But, hold on. Time is what you'll have to pay to get the things to settle down. There will always come a day when eve...