"MEN TALK OF KILLING TIME, WHILE TIME QUIETLY KILLS THEM".
-Dion Boucicault
"TIME = LIFE, THEREFORE WASTE YOUR TIME AND WASTE OF YOUR LIFE, OR MASTER YOUR TIME AND
MASTER YOUR LIFE".
-Alan Lakein
"TIME IS THE WISEST COUNSELLOR OF ALL".
-Pericles
Though the above sequence may sound cynical, it adheres to 'Cynicism'. I'd say that the 'most annoying thing' that one might face in his life is to wait for someone, unless one doesn't value oneself. Right from early days, time-keeping has been valued and preserved as a trait owned by learned and wise peculiars.
1.) Mulla Badani, the brilliant historian of the Mughal era cites that emperor Babur had a terrible rage against the court's "late-masters". His acrimony was so colossal that he had to deploy a special scourge for his court!
2.) Japan's Samurai way of warriorship emphasises the vitality of good time-keeping in battle as well as in habitual life. A 'Samurai' was expected to be as keen as a 'Peacock' and as swift as a 'Cobra'.
3.) Professional etiquette doesn't approve faulty time-keeping. Henry Ford, the illustrious motor-typhoon holds the record for firing (not literally, of-course) his tardy employees. He valued time greater than his venture.
I wonder why this kind of sheer adherence to time is noticeably rare amongst Indians! The worst thing in bad time keeping is that apart from conspicuous squandering of one's time, the 'late-master' also apparently trifles the hours of the one waiting for him. I must not fail to mention the fussy nature of every 'late-master' in brushing aside the fact that he had deliberately consumed the hours of the eager commons. This scenario is mostly manifested in special occasions. I wonder what would happen to the chief guest at the eleventh hour!
Hope now comes in the fact that the younger generation now values time as money (Thanks to Sir Benjamin Franklin). Recent judicial acumen too cogitate epoch as a major criteria. Contemporarily, government assemblage punk in time, offices are closed in time, price hikes are in time & even scorching summer is in time (just kidding). The eminent indicia is in the verity that commoners have once again attributed respect, dignity to the 'time-masters' & negligence, ignorance to the 'late-masters'. Henceforth, friends, if you'd like to hold your heads high, be "EARLY BIRDS"!(literally, of-course).
