It was just a quotation
from a scene in the animated movie “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”. It was
written in Japanese characters in a board with its English translation. As the
leading girl stares at the quotation, I stare too and contemplate on its
meaning. Time waits for no one. True! It never did. From the simplest wish to
avoid being late up to that grandest desire of freezing the last moment I have
with my mother. It never waits for me.
And as the leading character
gains that ability to travel back in time, I also fancy of the things that will
happen when I can have the power too. I also dream of the things I will change
and I will keep. How I love to have that control!
But watching as the
story unfolds; another famous quote is reiterated in my mind. “For every action
there is a corresponding reaction.” Watching the leading character watched
someone who has to pay terribly every time for her “time-leap” makes me one
with her guilt. Of course, you don’t want messing with other’s life. But what
if, it’s the only payment for your longing? You don’t know them anyway. And
they don’t know that it’s you. You, who are altering life events just for your
own sake. Now, that sounds selfish!
Yes.
The horror in the
leading character’s face when her best friend has to die in her place is just
appalling.
Do you really need to
time-leap? Do you really need to change what has already been destined? Do you
have to cheat?
“Time waits for no one.”
As simple as the line
is. I guess, we just have to do things right and treat time as the most valuable
commodity we ever have.
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