Timing

2000 years ago, timing was everything. If the weather wasn’t favourable, travellers didn’t set out on a new journey and housewives worried about whether their clothes would ever dry as there weren’t any fans to dry them indoor either.

Thanks to technological advances, we don’t have to worry about timing anymore. Everything is around and available 24*7. It is no wonder that we hardly feel the need to believe in the supernatural. Most things feel within our control. If we relied on the weather, however, we’d probably believe in omens just like our ancestors did.

It is tempting to negate the effect of timing. However, timing still matters.. a lot. It sounds fatalistic to say this but some things don’t really happen until they’re meant to happen and some things happen a lot quicker than we meant them to happen. It’s akin to sailing. You don’t control the vast open sea and it helps watching it carefully. There are times when it’s easy to make progress and then again, there are times when it’s incredibly hard. If you want to be a sailor, you have to learn to live with that reality and potentially, use it to your advantage.

Keeping a close watch out for timing helps with your personal habits too. Ideally, you do your most productive work when you feel most productive and leave the admin for times when you have less willpower. And if we feel depleted, we ought to eat and sleep. Regular rhythms help our body to stay productive.

Timing is everywhere. If we keep our eyes open, we learn how to use it to our advantage. Else we are in danger of just putting in useless effort and wondering why things don’t seem to work as well.

PS: This was an astonishingly difficult idea to communicate. I’m still not sure I’ve done justice.