Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Reasonable Time


While studying Law, I had read the concept of “reasonable time”.
Reasonable time refers to the amount of time that is fairly required to do whatever is required to be done, conveniently under the permitted circumstances.
In layman’s language, reasonable time means a time devoted fairly as a bona fide participant in the activity and doing all that that a normal person will do in that situation.
So after the reasonable time has elapsed, you no longer need to pursue. You can, very conveniently, confidently, without any guilt, drop the ball. 

Reasonable Time.                                                          
I wonder if this legal terminology is applicable in life as well.

What's the reasonable time to wait for someone.. something to happen... or live in the fear of something that might happen.
What's the reasonable time to hope..after which you must leave it and move on.

What's the reasonable time to wait and watch things going out of your hands and nothing working out.
What's the reasonable time to fix about something that you think should grow in is natural course of time.

What’s the reasonable time given to understand a being/relation/process or time that you wait to see yourself becoming a part of it.
What's the reasonable time to forgive someone (forgetting included).

What’s the reasonable time to let go (a zillionth time)
What’s the reasonable time to start fresh and how many reasonable number of times should you repeat so.
What’s the reasonable time to give life before you surrender?








Disclaimer- The above pathetic negatively charged questions are a result of PMS. Readers are advised to be cautious at their end while applying their brains.

2 comments:

  1. Time present and time past
    Are both perhaps present in time future
    And time future contained in time past.
    If all time is eternally present
    All time is unredeemable.
    What might have been is an abstraction
    Remaining a perpetual possibility
    Only in a world of speculation.
    What might have been and what has been
    Point to one end, which is always present.
    Footfalls echo in the memory
    Down the passage which we did not take
    Towards the door we never opened
    ……….
    Time past and time future
    What might have been and what has been
    Point to one end, which is always present.

    ………..
    Time past and time future
    Allow but a little consciousness.
    To be conscious is not to be in time
    But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
    The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
    The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
    Be remembered; involved with past and future.
    Only through time time is conquered.

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  2. Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
    Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
    Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
    Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
    Claspest the limits of mortality!
    And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
    Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
    Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
    Who shall put forth on thee,
    Unfathomable Sea?
    ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
    Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
    Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
    Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

    Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
    Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
    Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
    Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

    He was my North, my South, my East and West,
    My working week and my Sunday rest,
    My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
    I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

    The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
    Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
    For nothing now can ever come to any good.
    ~ W. H. Auden

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