IF ONLY!

Time indeed is not in our hands. If only we could time everything; the time for our births, the time for our happiness's, the time for our sadness's, the time for our togetherness's, the time for loneliness's, the time for our successes, the time for failures, the time for our deaths than life would have been indeed easy and predictable. But it is neither easy nor predictable, so time (this very moment) is of the essence.

Time is always ticking, in fact it never stops but we always feel "time is there for us", "we still have time" and so on, so we put off things which we should do today, we can do today (now) for later and tomorrow. So the reason for regrets, heartaches, pains for not being able to do the things which we wished, wanted and loved to do, the words we so wanted, wished and loved to say that 'moment of time', the moment that was there with us but which we kept for later and tomorrow and have lost it.

If only we can see our life in front of us, crystal clear than we would know what to do, what not to do, what to say and what not to say but such is not the case. We never know what is going to happen next, what is going to happen round the corner but even if we do see and know what lies ahead of us we cannot change the life (the inevitable), the fate that has been shaped out for us, we can only do it in a better way like in the movie IF ONLY!

Paul Nicholls who plays Ian in the movie is the male lead and Jennifer Love Hewitt who plays Samantha is the female lead. In this movie we can clearly see that even if we have a premonition, a vision and a real life-like dream like he does in the movie, we cannot avoid bad things from happening to us, we can only try and make little changes.

The instance he wakes up from his dream he makes it a point to tell her how much he loves her and had loved her since the day he met her (he makes best use of the moment in hand).

Ofcourse he tries to change the course of his dream by doing things differently (she dies in his dream), but things happen like in his dream (the only difference is that it is Ian in place of Samantha who dies in the end).

He could say he loved her only because of what he saw in his dream (had he not dreamt, he would have gone without telling her how much he loved her).

He learns that "if one lives for the moment, than one is living one's life fully", so it doesn't matter whether one has 5 minutes or 50 years in hand. And the next instance, the cab they are in meets an accident. He dies. Though heart breaking for her, he had lived his moment fully with her, the moment he had in hand.

Someone had rightly said, live the moment, do things now, say it now and then you would have lived a satisfied and a complete life, so even if something happens we would have NO REGRETS.

So for now let us; live our life 'in the moment', 'laugh a little more', 'say things out loud', 'be happy' and 'ENJOY THE MOMENT', the moment that is in our hands, the moment which is never going to come back to us if we let go of it.

THE MOMENT IN HAND IS SO VERY PRECIOUS, LET US MAKE BEST USE OF IT!

(Author's note: Much inspired by the movie "IF ONLY"! and also thank you for making me watch)