Life: F(t)

“What is it, that u require the most?”, asked a friend of mine once solemnly. Perhaps the question being inadvertent and spiritualistic, for a serious response than a materialistic one. We, my 3 usually close chums and I now looked with a raised eyebrow compartmentalizing his question and groping the mind for an answer. We (excluding the host, 3) burst exuberantly with different answers; one, a lavish home in the next street which might cost a million dollar;another, a sports bike and I, a huge refractor telescope(which would, in fact cost a fortune) and chuckled to myself. Now as we looked at the host, he eyed us with an expressionless countenance and then brooding like a sage, said,”Dont any of u feel the need for TIME?”

The realization then slowly dawned on us as I started to consider his view; Time was indeed the need of the hour!. Recollecting in a flash Einstein’s Space-Time fabric and the importance of time in his relativistic theory in specific and Physics in general, I also recognized that its utmost importance also extends to one’s Life. Perhaps every incident,

1.takes place at a certain time(t1)

2.till a particular time(t2)

3.in a time duration (Δt=t2 – t1; let us say dt)

So, right from the birth, our clock starts ticking and modestly ticks away whenever u look it, callously, without a pinch of sympathy duly performing its duty assigned to it by the forces of nature. I’m not lecturing the importance of time or its judicious usage or …, but presenting a rational perspective accompanied with a scientific tinge. Duly, it tops the matters of paramount concern in our day-to-day life and life on whole! From this, we can say that,

Life (L)= Factor or function (ƒ) of time (t)

=> L = ƒ (t)

Since we are concerned about the duration of the incident that happens in our life, dt, i.e., (t2 – t1), re-writing above equation as,

=> L = ∫ ƒ (t)dt —— Equation 1

The above equation showcases the intricate* relation between Life and time in a simple fashion thus demonstrating that summing up each and every incident that happens through one’s life, i.e., to integrate all the scenes in life, duly with respect to (w.r.t) time! The one final frontier, the Big Brother of all occassions, TIME!

(* – Many out there, might not accept the intricate realtion and I respect their views!)