Timing:

Time. An eternal thing that existed before us and will exist after us. It does not stop for anyone and anything. It continues to march forward, unraveling future - until there exists nothing to unravel.

In many cultures, time is considered very sacred that they equate it to God. I would agree with that. The quality that grants the superiority to time is its Irreversibility - a moment once gone, it is impossible to get it back. We may recreate a given moment at a later point, but not in its entirety. Never.

Some of our tasks require us to be in sync with time. Given that a moment may not come back, we need to act before it passes. To say - we need to match the 'timing'.

Cracking a good joke, proposing to your loved one, catching up on a pending task - Timing is of utmost important.

Any amount of effort gets wasted if the task is not done within the given time. The cost of missing the timing can be so high that it takes our whole life to recover.

But how to know if we are timing it right? Honestly, we can never know.

More than often, we come to know only in hindsight. We might think "I have time for this - will figure this out.", only to know that it should have been done earlier. Or we might have hurried, to realize we missed and messed up things in the haste.

We will for sure miss the timing for some things. Maybe we two would have lived together if I had asked her a year later. Or a year earlier. Maybe if I had fixed that bug early, I would have caught more bugs before testing closed.

Another key aspect that dramatically escalates the value of timing is death. Like time, it waits for none, and can't be undone. Missed to witness a comet that appears only once in 300 years? Sorry, you're done for this life. Death is a part of the nature. It provides closure; brings harmony and balance. But we never have prior information about our death. Tonight's sleep can be my last sleep.

Thanks to death, 'forever' is impossible, causing scarcity on 'now'. This is a big source of fear - the fear of not able to do things, as well as not able to regret about that. Which task is priority? Which is important? Which one requires a younger and healthier me?

My opinion, if you care - is that we should act. Act upon our tasks if we're just good enough. Start it even though we're afraid. Doing is movement. Movement is change. Change is life. When we do something, we get feedback. Our knowledge improves. We gain experience. If they are new territories or experiments, we should be aware that things can go wrong and then take a leap of faith - or not, based on analysis and some gut feeling. Do the best, leave the rest.

May we all do things that we've always wanted, before we no longer can. Wish you a happy evening each one of you!