Time and the Things that Remind Us
woobie on June 30th, 2008I have a Love-Hate relationship with time.
For a period, time was a friend, an ally that helped me get over something I’d rather forget, like a relationship given up for the sake of growth or some other BS reason. ‘Time heals all wounds’ is an old cliche that I tell people looking for advice on how to get over their broken relationships.
It’s like every day, we wake up and start anew. It takes more and more effort to remember the things that pushed us to almost give up on life a few days ago. Sleep erases the more destructive things from our minds when we succumb to it, like our spirit’s built-in defense against self-destruction. This is related to my theory of sleeplessness during depression. It’s as if we know that when we sleep, we will forget the more salient stuff about why we’re depressed. For some perverted reason, people need to fuel their anger, which will miraculously disappear if we take care of ourselves a little more.
Time became the enemy for me when I let myself be eaten up by lethargy. I was in a dead-end job that paid me less than the price of peanuts for everything I put out, but I didn’t mind because I was too afraid to venture out. In the process, I let time lull me into a fake sense of comfort, not knowing that the more I let my talent die, the more I lost the urge to cultivate it. And before I knew it, I became an aging geek in denial who realized too late that a rut job is no better than a rut relationship; it sucks up your energy ’til you don’t have any left for anything else.
This diatribe of sorts was influenced in part by an advertiser’s request to choose a watch from their Tag Heuer line and share it with my readers. I chose this pink beauty.
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I have read many articles and posts about time and it’s importance in healing wounds, but none as objective as this. All I ever had in mind was the cliche you mentioned.
Also, talking about how time can fail someone, I think I have been a victim of that. When I graduated with my first degree, I thought doing some part-time job and taking things easy will give me room to think about what the next step will be. Before I realised, I had spent 2 yrs “thinking”.
Now, I don’t give room for laziness to join hands with time to deceive me. When I think, I start acting imdiately.
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*sigh* Laziness is definitely the world. And the ‘thinking’ period usually eats up the best years of our lives.
Thanks for that insightful comment, sir. That is awesome! :D
i think most of us fall into the trap of complacency, especially during the early parts of our career when we don’t really know what we really want.
i too stayed a little longer at a job which wasn’t really doing anything for me anymore, and i didn’t realize how fast time was flying by when you don’t stop to really analyze yourself.
you’re correct when you say that time is both an enemy and friend, but i also think we need to be aware of time at all times… uhhh… yeah :) what i mean is, keep things in perspective. really poignant article.
Hahah, this made me think really hard about what you were trying to get at. Tag Heuer pala! Who says materialism doesn’t make us think deeply! :)