Why do people say, ‘How does time fly’! But time does not fly. There is no time at all. Time can never exist independently. Yet we relate and shamelessly attribute everything to time.
- How can there be a time for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Have food whenever you are hungry.
- Can there be a time for sleep? Sleep whenever you are tired.
- How could there be a right ‘age’ for marriage? How can anyone say it is ‘time’ for marriage?
Do we have a time for birth or death? It is time of our birth whenever we are born; it is time to die whenever we die. I would rather say it alone be called as the right time for birth or death! Life is free; it is unbounded. The myth called time is more like a as small as a matchbox, if I may say so, or perhaps even smaller.
What happens when we forcibly – through the force of gods, parents, society, and almost everybody and everything – stuff free and unbounded life into that small and miserable box? Life is infinite, unbounded, free and great! Can we ever force stuff it into a box? Anybody would say it is impossible. Yet we mercilessly stuff life into this box called time! What a shame!
Now the trouble begins. Life becomes small before time. Life became a slave of time! Time became larger than life. We have made it larger than life. Thus, everything in our lives depends on this stupid fiction called time. Intelligent people say that time is not only divided into past, present, and future, but also into auspicious and inauspicious! How much nonsense can people speak? Is there any limit for this shit?
At the cost of repetition, I say: time does not exist. Only fools believe that time exists. They live and die within the time. For them, life goes somewhat like this—education on time, marriage on time, and death on time! What more shit can I say?
With the non-existence of time, past and future cease to exist; so do auspicious and inauspicious moments. For others, Plato may have existed some 5,000 years ago. For me, Plato is my contemporary. So are the Buddha and Mahavira. These people are connected with me. In the same way that you have instant communication through the internet and computer systems, I am connected with the Buddha, with my father, grand father and all others. I speak, discuss with them all matters of current affairs every day!
To explain further, your WhatsApp message sent now may reach the intended person in the USA yesterday because of time zones. Thus, if you can be connected with yesterday, can I not be connected with Plato who existed 5,000 years ago? Whether you are connected with yesterday or tomorrow, as in the case of a WhatsApp to Australia from India, time ceases to exist.
The computers can only do so much. For me, I am connected with my contemporaries like Plato, Buddha, and my great-grandfather in the present through eternity. Present is eternity. On the other hand, I am also deeply connected with the people of the future, perhaps even with my great-grandchildren.
Do not be awed by my connections with the past and future. It is nothing extraordinary. I meet my great-grandchildren and the Buddha every day. What you need to understand and know well is this: time does not exist. Time is fiction. Time is for the fools!
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
