THE shortest period of time that is currently accurately measurable,a picosecond.Following the nanosecond, then the microsecond,also there'd be the millisecond,and here goes the second,to a minute,surely an hour,a day,a month,a year,a decade,a century,a millenium,an epoch,and an aeon..the synonym of eternity.
Great start for an opening to a long passage eh? Well, I hope I don't disappoint you. Because this isn't going to be what you'll be expecting. Nowhere close to astronomy. Never geology. Nor it would appear to be philosophy. My sincere apology if this happened to keep you tempted as you were expecting something knowledgeable. But there's a lesson though.. even if it's not close to a penny's worth. Well I would say knowledge is priceless. But sadly I'm borned in an era where price tags can be seen placed on touchable and even unholdable things everywhere .In fact anywhere and wherever that one could imagine as we were taught to earn for survival, for leisure, for pleasure. I guess you can understand very quickly as the things we learned since the beginning of our first breath,costs more than an aeon's worth. No one can bring money they own with them when their souls leave, but their knowledge goes with eternity. The lesson I mentioned in fact was just a sentence I'd like to share with, as I couldn't find anything more true than what I've been taught. The quote. A nine-word sentence. The nine words that left such an impact, where I saw from the internet.
"Hope, but never expect. Look forward , but never wait."
Simple english ,but it took me days to think of what it really means. And I realised, I'd own a weeks' worth of nine-word sentence that didn't go wasted as the time consumed to understand each an everyword means something,and everything when my surroundings became my life guru as if everything I do and everyone I deal with has a connection to the word I yet to understand . Unconsciously, the cancelled parcel I've been looking forward to seems to be connected with the quote. As I waited and neglected more important things that should've be done. Scolded by my father for not being serious for my college intake as if the parcel will lead me to a brighter future. I missed the chance to register in time as I paid full attention to the parcel I didn't get and kept on trying to purchase it when it's already out of stock. There, I lost two things for neglecting the other "least important "-college registration closing date.
Just when I felt guilty and regretted for not doing things right. Fortuna, the Greek goddess Tyche ,the goddess of fortune, must've passed by. A friend called and told me the date of the registration that I thought has ended, was due the following week. I squealed in excitement and activated the computer in the middle of that very late night and did what I should. The next day, when the sun is setting down already, the parcel I've been waiting all along, arrived.
My point wasn't how lucky I was to get both things done in a blink of an eye. It was the way I take everything for granted when I shouldn't because I should already grow up by this time and take everything seriously.
Waiting is a waste of time, expecting something is a way to get ourselves hurt if our expectations didn't work out . Thus we shall only hope for the best and move on without waiting for a miracle . Because if something belongs to us, it will be ours. We shall just let time be our answer.
