William Wordsworth, the poet, has given a very beautiful definition of time. What is time? Is it the shadow of the clock or the ticking sound of the clock? Is it the flowing sand or day and night? Is it the winter or the spring or the months and years and centuries? These are all but the arbitrary. They are not time; they are the measures of time. As there is life on earth there is time. Time is a precious treasure, which we can never be stored or replaced but we can save it. It has three phases — past, present and future. Past is history, future is unknown. So we have only the present in our hands. Whatever has to be done has to be done that day itself. It is either now or never. Time is a unique resource which each one of us has in equal measure — every one has 24 hours, 60 seconds, 14 days for a fortnight, 52 weeks and 365 days in a year.
Archana M. Das, XI M, St .Mary's Higher Secondary School, Pattom
