by Shaan Verma ’13

High school is very, very short. It may seem like the longest experience of your life, but it is only four years. Four years out of a life’s length of time is infinitesimally small. It only seems like a long process because of a teenager’s mindset. Students fixate on this narrow-minded viewpoint about how everything is on a deadline and that there is no time to take a single breath between the enormous amounts of work. This is, at times, true, but for the most part students are just complaining about their lives and wallowing in their self-pity before they actually start the work.

Students only need to be able to make time. Making time is something that is often dreamt about, but it is actually quite possible. Some people might say to put one foot in front of the other in order to get everything done. These people are complete liars. The only thing that must happen in order to make time is to realize that time saunters on, whether you decide to go along with it or not.

Time waited, waits, and will wait for no man. This is law—cut, dry, the end. Even though there is an impending deadline there is always time. Whether the deadline is in two minutes or in two days, there is always time. Use of time is up to the person, but there is always time.

Why does one need to ask what, when a more delicious question is when? This can be seen in the relevance of history, because it carries its significance based on time. There is nothing revolutionary about a revolution that happens in the wrong time period. Just the same, turning in a summative project before or after the due date is pointless. After all the convoluted events in life, the only entity that weathers the storm is time. When put in perspective, time is all that anybody has. Life is all about what you do in the time that you are allotted.