Delayed Flights

Looking out the window, I begin to see the little rays of sunlight making their way through the gaps between the cottoncandy-like clouds. It's way too early to wake up on this side of town, yet here I am jotting down keystroke after keystroke, barely noticing the birds chirp away and bask in their morning sunshine's glory. These sights are all too-familiar - this is what always happens on the mornings of my days. And it has been so for the past few weeks  already, yet everyday that passes brings with it a fresh, new sense of awe and wonder. You see, lately I've come to realize this one cliche that seems to never go away - that indeed, life is the only gift freely given.

Routines always have this two-sided dimension accorded to them. One, being that they allow you to run on auto-pilot for most of the time you're following that line. It's a kind of a floating feeling where you might be just going with the flow, yet you know that this certain flow is leading you somewhere good, maybe even great. It could be that this progress of yours would eventually become one of the finer things you've ever done, yet you only realized you did after it all - little things that add up and become greater than the sum of its parts put together. This is actually a good thing to have - similar to gaining a passive source of income, it brings with you a sense of security that security agencies never could. Security of thought, my friend.

The other side of the story isn't that much of a negative than it is a challenge - that in routines, chances are small that new and interesting things happen to you. Following one allows you to bask in some care-and-worry-free moments, yet personally this has an unusual way of unnerving me. Some people just have that tendency to look for action, to look for more new things, to do things not done before. And I happen to belong to the extreme of that supposed group. Like a hungry animal spotting his first meal in days, I'm positioned to always be ready to pounce once the opportunity presents itself - and even that show of relation is an understatement. You could say the point is moot though, and I might agree. Everyday is a routine, and you could choose whatever routine you would want to follow. Heck, you could even follow a routine of trying out new things. Be creative.

Now that I did get to mention security a while back though, there's always this thought that keeps popping up so much that I believe it wants to get mentioned in this post. What is meant by that line is that sense of security that allows us to carry on through unexpected delays and perhaps even lost time. Though there will almost always be never a situation for lost time - everything can happen anywhere, and lost time can allow us to do that. But the general tendency for people is that once something you expect to happen at a certain point in time didn't, and you learn that it's been delayed, you get nervous feelings of worry and maybe even angst and desperation. Human nature has this way of letting you feel you should already have that thing you expected, and yet more time still has to be undergone for it to be fully realized. It's generally not a good feeling to have. Yet, this is where a sense of security come in - once you have that, you don't give the delay much thought, except knowing that it will eventually come. And when it does, the feeling of finally getting it might even be more fulfilling than having had it the first time you expected it to come.

As with most of the things in life, time can be a game. The ways and means that go with how you utilize what you have will be crucial in gaining the upper hand in any situation. Trust me, this isn't a rant on proper time management. Think of this as more of a thought-based approach to handling time matters. For in everything that happens, for in everything that should have happened, and for in everything that will happen, time is that universal director that brings it all together and produces a wonderful play of things - and our actions and thoughts are the actors in this movie shoot. No matter what happens though, what we aim for will, what we aspire for, what we want, will eventually come - in time.

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for the win.