Time Bound

Trrrrr….Trrrr… the alarm rings. I try to locate the mobile out of sheer habit. After a minute of a halfhearted search in the darkness, I realize that the alarm has been set on my laptop! So I fumble to find my specs, and rush to find the laptop (which by the way, is hidden nicely under a huge pile of clean, fresh smelling dry clothes!).  And even though I have told myself (after reading “The Secret”) that I’ll wake up each day full of positive energy; I end up cursing aloud (there goes my positive energy).

So now I have to brush, cook, eat, clean, read the newspaper, comment on the daily happenings, discuss yesterday with my (over-worked) husband, catch an auto-rickshaw, and still manage to catch my 8.47 Churchgate bound local to reach work..! By now you must have guessed that I live in Mumbai and am an atypical Mumbaikar! My life literally revolves around the clock!

So after a grueling morning session, I make my way through the crowd, out of the station and on my way to office. Now is the time to put on a serious face and work… So I am an Economist working with the country’s oldest and most respected entrepreneurial house! Like every other working member of the teeming Indian diaspora, I love my job (analyzing markets).

You see, the clock plays a vital part in our lives, we live by it literally sometimes making one feel do we own time or does time own us? Tell me when there weren’t any clocks were people still bound to time? Even God in his Gitasar to Arjuna had said that only time is eternal… But I do not have any time to ponder on these issues, remember I have a 6.29 train to catch back home?!

Right, so on my journey back home, (from the town to the suburbs; you see, the mortals can only eke out a living in the suburbs with the “affordable” rentals), I read a book, listen to music, eves-drop, catch up with friends over the mobile (thank god for that!)

By the time I reach home and rid myself of the sin of overeating at lunch by going for a run, it’s time to hit the kitchen, cook some healthy food (I just ran!), watch tv, catch up with family and generally enjoy the luxuries of life. Oh yes, did I forget, its 11pm already and I am yet to set the alarm for tomorrow…..?