A perspective of time

Today I started reading a very interesting book which I bought ages before and now I got “time” to read it. It couldn’t be more appropriate because I was thinking about finding some “time” to read this book, and title of the book is ‘A Geography of Time – The Temporal Misadventures". It is written by a Social Psychologist Robert Levine. In short, the book is all about how we perceive time as, and what are the factors which affects our perception about time. I just made a start, finished with one chapter and couldn’t help myself but to write about it.

“A man who wastes one hour of time has not discovered meaning of life” as said by Charles Darwin or “So little time, so little to do” as said by famous pianist Oscar Levant, this book tries to put both sides into perspective. It immediately put in a thought mode, and now reflection about my own perception about time started. Especially I know, I got more time saving machines, but lesser and lesser time I got.

I will keep updating here about my finds from my own introspection. 

Freedom. What is it?

I have been asked to watch movie "Queen", quite a few times by people close by. I have been told to watch "Queen" because they say it’s one of the most brilliant movie from India in recent times. So I had to give a try and watch the movie. It's a brilliant movie, my first thought after watching it. I loved it more because it features one city which I adores the most, 'Paris' and another city which I call it as home outside home, 'Amsterdam'.

On surface it showcase quite an interesting subject, and everyone will have their own perspective towards it. So I was discussing the movie with one of my friend, and I asked, "so what do you think the message of the movie was?” "Freedom" she said.

In my view the movie is less about freedom but more about perspectives. Freedom is perspective, I believe. Movie is about a girl who raised like any typical India girl, about to get married and getting dumped by her to be husband stating their status do not match with each other. This guy knew girl from years, they fell in love, and then this guy goes abroad and then he feels that she is not the right match for her. Well, that’s his part of story. The girl now, goes on her own adventure, and decides to take off to Europe on her previously planned honeymoon, alone, to her part done. And it’s a story about what she discovering a new world all together and coming out strong in the end.

Rather than at the end, I was looking into process. Process of her evolving from her cocoon. The people she meets, what she looks into them, what she learns from them and what she realised. Freedom is one of such realisation. Some people even may not aware about what freedom is all about and moreover if it is needed to them. I still feel, freedom is relative. For some people freedom means different thing than other. I tried searching for Freedom on Wikipedia, but there is none article directly about Freedom but rather various other articles on what Freedom may refer to like free will, liberty, rights, civil liberties etc.

As quoted in Wiki, “Do we have some control on our actions, and if so, what sort of control, what extent?”. And this brings us to whole what, if, but scenario. Like there is no absolute truth, there is no absolute freedom but it is all relative. This may give us little peace within ourself. 

Introspection

Introspection really happens. And to happen at daily is something very rare. Everyday, how many times we think and ask ourselves questions? From simple to difficult one. With my initiative to improve myself, this is something I took as a challenge to myself. One of the daily things to do is 'Do something nice to someone'.

I took quite a lot of things for granted. May be everyone does. With daily life going on, it is easy to forget to be nice. It is easy to forget about others because you are stuck with yourself. This is something I have realised recently. This task of 'do something nice to someone' is not constantly reminding me of others. Everyday in the evening, I have to ask question to myself, 'have I done something nice to someone?'. And I realised it doesn't take much time to be nice, or let's say it doesnt take much efforts.

It could be simple thing like sending a good, thanking message to your friends, giving call to old friend who will definitely be happy to talk to you, helping stranger, motivating someone, and what not. When you start doing it, you will realise how difficult it is, because we forgot to be nice. We forgot to think about others.

I am realising this, more than ever. And now, with everything I do, I try to find instances where I could be nice. Do the right thing, and make someone else happy. Again, everything started after the post from Reddit. I took a challenge to get myself to next level. I am getting more serious about my running. I have to do it, for my health but also it's fun. Recently I ran 10k run here, and now I am aiming for improving the timing. It's tough but fun process.

With so many things on horizon, I had to put things in place. and everything starts with you. I took it to you, and took this tasks to get myself better at many things.

More report to come soon. With more deta, and explanation :)