22nd March 2011
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.
Wayne Dyer
Time is a resource which cannot be saved or preserved. It cannot be stopped. You cannot speed up time. You cannot borrow time or lend it to someone. Isn't it strange that the most valuable resource comes to us absolutely free, but with all these conditions? It is like the capital in a business which is your only contribution.
You have to understand that when it comes to money or any other resource, you have an option not to invest it. But you are always investing your time on some activity or other. There is no such thing as `not working' or `not busy'. The only question is what are you working and what are you doing?
You cannot put the clock back. Lost time, spoken words and sped arrow will not come back. You should enjoy what you are doing. There may be some time when you go through a challenge in your life. Some experience may be even painful. You have to ask the question: can I change this? If the answer is `yes', then do get into action. If the answer is `no', then don't waste your time in trying to prevent it. It is like a tsunami on which we have no control, and all that we can do is to mitigate the after effects of the same.
Time will come when you'll regret for all those things you've not done. You may have many reasons for not having done those acts. May be some actions were impossible. May be someone denied you that option of doing it. Or you may not have had the skill or other resources for acting in a particular way. Whatever it is, the world will not treat you with any leniency. Self pity, self justification, rationalization, or any type of excuse will not be valid, and you have to handle the result of your inaction!
Just think: what is that you could have done last week and why didn't you do it? How you are going to handle the consequence of your inaction?
N C Sridharan
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