Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Pathe Galore!

I see you wear a watch. But do you have time? Do you feel your watch more often than not communicates to you in a rather discomforting, disapproving, rolling-the-eye fashion, telling you time and again you are late - yet again? well, join the club.

For years I have been slave to my watch. I have so patiently put up with its holier-than-thou attitude. Always heard it tell me I am late, always telling me time was running out, and always reminding me I need to be one step ahead, to be on top of things, to be in control, to be better at managing my time. And then I gave up. Threw the darned watch with the biggest attitude ever. The next watch wasn’t better in any sense. Same thing. Threw that too. Quit wearing a watch altogether.

Without a watch, life got worse. Not only was I continuing to be bad with my time, I didn’t know HOW bad.

Work. That was it. All these years. That was the cause. I picked up my poor watch and shifted my indignation to my work. Work that had consumed the most part of my awake time for years. And that knowledge didn’t help for another few years. I could never do what I wanted to do. Cuz there was no time!

A Blog! And so I begin my attempt at reclaiming a part of me that I loved, that I allowed to atrophy. And here I am, having just created my own Blog, typing my first ever.

4 comments:

vinoo said...

long overdue.
jus when i thot a writer had sold his soul...

Srini said...

holy guns,
Keep it flowing, nice to have you back. No offense on using the pathe word, I guess all of us had equal rights to it.

Rajeev said...

Swindle Dearest,

Your past has spoken ... funny to think of it that a watch could mean either to keep watch or to watch time ... sad that nobody approves of observing time go by - they call that laziness nowadays, we call it leisure ;)

Raja said...

"what is life full of care, when there is no time to stand and stare"...but then, the watch says, "Hey, it's time to move on"....nicely written ...keep it going...Cheers!