Time and tide wait for none...

Hello world... today while taking my green tea I was reminded of a speech I gave in school. Title was --Time and Tide wait for none. I won the award... ahem. Thank you thank you.!!

But then a young mind of mine couldn't actually have absorbed its real meaning.

Today, three decades on, my adult mind wonders.. time actually has flown. It did not wait. 

Those happy simple moments of school, homework, contra, tetris, Mario, friends have passed on. No more holidays of art and craft. No more litchies and mangoes at nani nana and dadi's place. There is no more the task of completing holidays homework and one which I miss, the excitement of going back to school and sharing the adventures of summer holidays with school chums. 

A tide of memories fills my mind of the times gone by. College days, ragging, crushes, newly found nari mukti morcha. The hostel dance parties where electric heater was the "disco light", listening to songs with my elder sister, sharing insights over bread butter and evening tea with my dear friend. 

All of it seems so far off in the distant past. Yet, sometimes it seems just like yesterday. As if I can touch all these moments, but oh how time flies. 2-3 days ago, a junior staff called me for a signature of mine, she is going to get regularised, and I just blurted "hey you just joined 2 years back". The reply, epic, "Mam its been 5 years.".. Me---" when, how?"

Well,  time and tide wait for none.... 

And then, while I was fighting my endometriosis, my dad was diagnosed with brain tumour.. and 2018 was a year of hospitals on the other side of table for me... I needed,  prayed for, yearned for more time with papa... but time flew... He left us and its the 4th year now and I know time doesnot wait... 

So please cherish each moment, each day with your loved ones. Use every second every minute of the day judiciously. Work hard, party harder. Really, time and tide wait for none. 

And take time out to sit and think. and drink tea.. green tea.