Sounds bizarre doesn’t it. I mean, we are so used to the 12
hour clock basis that it would strike us odd. But what if it did. What if for
just one day, in our mundane humdrum life, we got an extra hour, how relevant
would it be? Would it be an hour of extra sleep, an extra hour of hanging out
at your favourite café Or just an extra hour at work? Or would it be an hour to
ponder on our life, an hour of remembering loved ones, an hour of reflection or
just an hour to sit back and relax.
For some, it will be an hour to shop a little more, a little
more time to spend at the food court in the best mall in town, a little more
time to enjoy with friends. For the workaholic, it would be an extra hour to
finish their work on time and if at all possible, to do some extra work. For
some, it would be an extra hour of sleep. I mean, you can never have enough of
sleep right? For the Indian politician, it would be an extra hour to earn some
illegal money. For the brawling housewife, it would be one more hour of
screaming on the housemaid. And for some more it would be just another hour of
any other day, a useless 60 minutes of no constructive work.
But for some more people it would be the hour to reflect, reflect
on past deeds and actions, an hour just to think about things done and whether
they could have been done in any other way, an hour to remember something funny
or an hour to remember something painful. For some others, it would be an hour
of remembering loved ones, an hour to just sit back and take a stroll through
memory lane.
It would also be the hour of appreciation, an hour just to
appreciate the beauty of nature all around us. Be it in the love of a mother to
her child or a flock of birds flying on a cloudless sky against the backdrop of
the setting sun, it would be the hour to thank God for everything. It would be
an hour of repentation for past deeds and to forgive people, for any sin that
they might have committed towards us.
One might argue that how can an extra hour be beneficial.
Wouldn’t it be just an extra hour in our already long schedule for a day. Well,
the extra hour would also be an added bonus. We could utilize it to do
something that we always wanted to do but couldn’t due to shortage of time. It
could be learning to cook something or trying out bungee jumping or learning
French or to learn dancing, it could be anything. An hour of just about
anything we want to do.
It would be the hour to make a difference. Be it spending
some time with the under privileged or standing up for what is right against
all odds. It would be the hour that would
bring change to the world. An hour of giving back to the world. An hour
of oneness, an hour when we forget about caste, creed, religion or ethnicity
and just unite in the true spirit of humanity and stand up for truth and
passion.
In a nutshell, the extra hour would manifest itself
differently for every individual. It all would depend on each human’s perception
i.e. whether they want to utilize it for something good or let it just be
another hour. It’s all up to us what we choose to do, because we weave the
strings of our own destiny. Whether we use that hour to tighten it a bit more
or leave it loosened, it all comes back to our choices. So, if at all someday
the thirteenth hour was to happen, make the most of it, because you never know
how providence might reward you.
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