This reflection serves as an
audit of efficiency & opportunity (Kairos). Written at a moment of
acute awareness regarding the passage of time, it critiques the gap between
intent & action, driven by the imperative to emulate historical
"colossuses" before the "best period" of physical strength
is fully spent.
Each day presents a challenge, so
draw the best from the options found;
Yet that full tapping of my inner
strength is not yet known or crowned.
I conceive a title that would
further all true improvement;
But the quick passage of time
leaves the mouth just agape.
Why can I not seize the tenets of
time, where efficiency is built?
And truly transform the self as
others, producing real worth for all?
Why is my will not the core of my
disciplined self?
Why can I not chart issues with a
simple pen and paper?
I can also do a bit, but not only
to daydream and retreat;
Enhance memory & writing
power, heeding the inner environment?
Almost half a life has passed
with the best time of physical strength.
I vow to strengthen the core, but
time will surely take its final toll.
I must be keenly aware, how much
precious time remains in hand,
And can I do something
remarkable, to admit then, with no regret?
I am now able to select the path
and bring forth concrete results;
To make a big goal with
intermittent steps to contribute to the daily.
Write daily, maybe at night, as
the dawn is for Kadambari translation;
Even that should have been done;
such time management is overdue.
Do a bit more of life each day,
adding internal & external resources;
I am meant to be helpful,
soothing the agonies of many like hearts.
Accomplish great adventures,
touching on some unusual aspects;
I should seek new dimensions
daily to fill the vessel of enrichment.
What am I to make of life’s
entity, and endeavor all the time?
To engross fully in that task and
take each necessary step with intent.
I need to craft a physical
environment for a setting of efficiency.
And monitor the progress daily, lest
vital things should slip.
Be like Dostoevsky, Samuel
Johnson, or the great mind of Shakespeare?
Or like Goethe, Dante, Tennyson,
Hemingway, or the clear vision of Orwell?
When will I labor on something lasting,
as Time is scarce at hand?
But whatever is here, use it
optimally; that alone will bring some solace.
See Tulsi, Kali, Surdas,
Banabhatt, Magh, Bihari, Keshav Das, or so;
Or Ambedkar, with gigantic study
& writing, and the big social movement.
A great power is hidden in the
man's atoms, and I can also invigorate;
Why remain docile, slothful, unfulfilled,
just watching all merely pass?
Key to all aspects is the
Determination, imbuing both quantity & quality;
If unable to gather many in
number, even then, give something unusual.
See Jai Shankar Prasad,
Bharatendu Harish Chander, or Vivekananda’s focused life,
Or Keats, Mozart, or Shankaracharya:
in a short span, they gave ultimate worth.
Stay intelligent & focused,
but know that companions can help;
Try the best for yourself first,
but the association can strengthen too.
In some two & quarter years
of blogging, I have published 180 posts;
Also, some writing is done, but
the necessary pace needs to be increased.
Make life a worthwhile entity;
don’t let it slide unchecked in its own way.
Knowledge only emerges with
interactions, but not exclusively outside.
Own meditations & analysis,
the right phenomenon is checking the truth;
Living certainly is to be made
marvellous by self-working & help only.
Enhance self by adopting
efficiency tenets; surely it will demand much,
But rewards are fabulous if
successful in this fierce orientation with self.
Talk with some successful people,
and cultivate true teachers near you,
But if interaction fails, then be
a self-teacher, as said by the Buddha.
A legendary self is wrought only
by rigorous work on oneself.
So be attuned to the core self,
and do not let its potential slip for good.
Pawan Kumar,
31st November,
2025, Friday, 01:14 AM (Midnight), Berhampur (Odisha)
(My Diary, 2nd July
2016, Saturday, 8:23 PM, New Delhi)
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