Time

They say there's always a time and a place for everything. Isn't it crazy how much it influences everything? Today we went to Camden Markets and I saw the dude behind me get completely drenched when the wind blew and water splashed all over him from the marquee roof. It fell only on him. He'd just gotten there, and the water could have fallen at another spot or time, and not splashed on anyone (thereby saving me from laughing hysterically and appearing rude…) Jokes aside, I always wonder how certain things could have gone, better or worse, if it had happened at ever just a slightly earlier or later moment. Because so many other things - important things, people's lives sometimes - depend on such insignificant random events.

Forget the wish to go back in time! Imagine if we could predict just a step ahead. If we could train our instincts to know exactly when to say certain things to people to achieve the desired effect. To know how to instinctively integrate and account for various factors like mood, sugar/energy level, hunger, context, so perfectly that you can say the "right" things at exactly the right time. Give that perfect piece of advice that that person needs then and there. How to phrase things in a way that they'll listen. Now that's a talent that if I had, I would feel like the richest person alive. But there's a downside to such a talent. What if that perfect mood formula never comes, and you're still waiting? Sometimes that opportunity would never come and you've just lost an opportunity to at least get even a part of your idea across because of your stupid need to phrase things "perfectly" and say them at the "perfect" time.

Wow I sound like a brainwashing control-freak Nazi so I'll just leave it there.

It's time to begin isn't it na na na na na na