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That’s the thing with time. One day you’re sitting doing your everyday mundane activity and it hits you. The truth behind this whole thing called life hits you and it hits you hard. All those sayings and philosophies about making the best of your life, enjoying every bit of it and making the fullest of everything — it stands no meaning in this particular moment.

It’s a mundane activity with the sound of a prayer from a distant dargah. The typical dark night of 8pm. The time comes to you authoritatively, telling you one day, one day it would all be over. That slowly everything will fade out. The people near you at this moment, you can hear them talking but suddenly it’s all in slow motion. There’s going to come a day they’ll no longer be there. You’re going to wish you made the fullest, that you lived the moment fully, as long as they were there, while they were there. One day as a matter of fact even you’re going to die.

The reality hits you. Whatever you have in this very moment is slowly going to evaporate with time and to wake you even more, everything is already evaporating. What to make of this time and this epiphany? It surely isn’t a happy one. So you stare.

You stare at that person, at the fabric of clothing they’re wearing, the furniture you associate your memories with, you stare at the time that’s slowly running and you can’t beat it because it wasn’t why you were here in the first place.

What was your purpose?

Is history a joke?

Is present a clown?

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