TIME 2 MINUTES:

Anand Kumar Gupta
2 min readJul 26, 2022

The word “Time” is understood and interpreted variously.

If we keep aside the genius cream of cream found in MIT, Princeton and Stanford who talk the language of Space — Time Fabric and it’s Warping, the lesser beings conceive time as … … they themselves don,t know what.

Being an ordinary mortal myself I find “TIME” to be mysterious enough. A “meter” is a unit for measurement of “length”, a “kilogram” is a unit for measurement of “mass” (for God’s sake don’t ask me what is “mass” because at one stage everybody understood “mass” as that which resists any change in uniform rectilinear motion until Einstein explained that E = m.c². Sorry! we should not be discussing Physics here and return to the topic — “Time 2 minutes”.

Let us consider, “Time 2 minutes” as a whole, there can be innumerable possibilities. For example:

  • A Flight can be missed, resultantly;
  • A critically important sick person may not reach the expert doctor in time,
  • A donated Organ may not reach the recipient,
  • A candidate may miss job interview,
  • The entire family that was to board the flight celebrated and specifically thanked God since the Flight had crashed … unfortunate for passengers and crew;w
  • A lucky person came out from the North Tower of World Trade Center at 08:44 hrs, just 2 minutes before 08:46 hrs., the exact time at which the first plane (American Airlines Flight 11) hit its target on 9/11 and boarded a taxi for Penn Station to board a train.

May I now leave the reader without disturbing him/her any more as every body may have had his/her own experiences relates to couple of minutes.

Please do let all benefit from you experiences of brief periods of time.

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Anand Kumar Gupta

Retired engineer. Previously Executive Director — Torrent Power, CEO — L&T Power Plant O&M, Sr. V.P. — Hindalco, Director — Renusagar Eng. Services.