A Horizontal Sand Clock

Today is a quiet Saturday. No appointments to rush to and no plans made ahead. It was a good opportunity to spend some time with myself. So I headed to the gym for a quick workout after a simple lunch. Well, the work out part was merely a self-comforting statement, as the time I spent for work out is not even more than 45 mins!

It was really rare indeed, for me to step into the sauna. It seemed that even a mere 15 mins is too much a hassle to sequence out from my time. But today time is a luxury for me, so I seated myself in the sauna and enjoyed the heat. It was so relaxing that I almost dozed off. Just at that moment, something peculiar caught my sight. It was a sand clock. It was just any normal sand clock that you see in a sauna room. But what really caught my attention was that somebody had placed the sand clock horizontally instead of the usual vertical position.

There were only two reasons I could think of for anyone to put the sand clock horizontally. Either that person did it out of mischief or he is trying to stop time, at least metaphorically. It was something I naively tried to do sometime ago. Back then I knew that I was inching towards a bad state of emotion as the time progressed. I knew given a bit of time whatever or whoever that I was enjoying or cherishing would leave due to the natural course of events. I did whatever I could to prevent it from happening. My only prayers and hope was that time could just stood still a bit longer. Of course it never did. Human is just too minute to act againts the course of changes. Whatever that are bound to happen, will happen. In the end, after it happened, I did plunge into the deep dungeon of emotion torment. But I was surprised it was my enemy i.e. TIME was the one who healed me and made me a much stronger person than I was before.

So to the person who had put the sand clock horizontally, I sincerely prayed things will work out fine for you but most of the time it depends very much on ourselves. TIME is neutral. It does not mean to make enemy or friends with anyone. Most of the time, we are the ones who made enemy with it. And there starts the suffering.....