What's the Time?

Someone great once said that the Chinese people don't know what is TIME. The world had been evolving, becoming richer and more powerful while his motherland, with her disregard for aliens, had become a sick woman. He said that, during the colonial times when foreign powers filled our mother China, with the reigning monarch at its wits end. This person eventually manage to overthrown the monarch, unifying the country and creating a republic. Ironically, it was the West that brought in watches and taught the Chinese the concept and importance of time. Time was said to be able to bring the country forward through industrialisation. But it was also wrong timing that the Chinese went back into the dark box of not knowing how the world changed and the movement of time-Cultural Revolution. It certainly took a while for them to metamorph out of their cocoon and realise that time is indeed running out.

Was watching Globe Trekker one evening and the feature was on China. I was deeply moved by a part when a boy tried talking to the host in his barely-there english while the host struggle to understand. The boy knows that he is no longer in the dark box, he wants to get out to soak in the global sunshine and english is his passport. The Chinese have started to re-understand the importance of time. How much they dare to dream, dare to accomplish and the fire to succeed is a lesson to be learnt and to be careful as they are getting faster and faster, trying to catch our heels.

I looked back, regretting those mistakes I made, mistakes that cannot be forgiven, mistakes that has delayed my time and me surging forward. I need to re-understand time, so that I would not be retarded once again. I need to wear a watch.