365
Days in a year
24
Hours in a day
60
Minutes in an hour
60
Seconds in a minute
8760
hours in a year
5,25,600
minutes in a year and
3,153,6000
seconds in a year!
Life
may churn out millions of seconds into your life but one thing it never releases
into your life is “second chances.” We wish that life came fitted with that
fancy “Undo” button… unfortunately it does not…we need to sweat our way to undo
our follies of the past, some take hours, some take days, others take months
and yet others do take years. Things are never undone in life with just few
clicks or few quick swipes like our smart gadgets.
The
trick is to make every second count!
Seconds…
as long as you make them count have the power to make a difference in your own
life and in others…regardless of whether you make an effort to make them count
or not to count, they are going to count…
Heraclitus
says “You cannot step into the same river twice” and so true it is, a second
that has passed by has passed by, I will never be able to relive a second that
has passed by…I would like to cherish every second of my life and I have
started making significant changes to my life to achieve this end and how about
you?
But
a lot could be done in a second to make or break others and in the process do
the same to ourselves.
It
just takes a second to compliment someone…just try right away looking at the
mirror or your smart phone cam saying, “you look beautiful”, “that was a good
job”, “liked your coffee”, “a nice shirt”.
It
just takes a second to utter a consoling word…
It
just takes a second to hug your child that comes running to you with its arms
flung open as enter your home after a tiring day or for some after a tiring
week…
Making
every second count, for some it means attracting more money each second, for
others becoming more popular. There could be nothing wrong with these goals as
long as no damage is caused to the others and as long as you know that your
freedom ends where your nose ends, as long as you never barge into others’
space to usurp your “more money” and your “more popularity”.
We
have heard several times, time is a great healer, time is a great master and
one more thing that we need to know about time is that it is absolutely
“unbiased”… 60 seconds is 60 seconds for everyone!
Every
second counts. You would never be able to step back to relive a second that has
just passed by!
Lately,
the increasing awareness for me is that I make my seconds count when I spend
more quality time with my family – my wife and my kid and when I am actually
cherishing the moment that I am living and not being in 9 am and longing for 5
pm.