Mind The TimeTable.. Time the MindTable.

    The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily perhaps not possibly chronological. It is the continuous thread of revelation.

    -Welty, Eudora  OneWriter's Beginnings, II.'Learning to See'.

I love this quote. It echoes my thoughts with respect to planning, timetable and order of things in general. Looking back at your life, you realize in spite of all the failed plans, broken promises or exhausted deadlines the things that matter all turned out ok. And the things that did not matter.. . well.. why fret about them anymore than needed.

Whether or not you wish it, the universe conspires with/against you as the circumstances prescribe and achieves its own end. You may like it. You may not. In the end everything happens for a reason. If you choose and you have the right frame of mind for it, you could play an active role in it. Or remain a spectator.

I find myself again and again incapable of sticking to a timetable of doing things - whether study related or otherwise. A part of me rebels at the thought of an order being imposed on my free thinking. Why not live life as it comes? Why should one plan and analyse every single detail of every single day and miss out on adventures in between?

I distinctly remember something that happened a couple of times in school, which my mom laughingly tells all her grandchildren. I never would remember the timetable for exams, nor remember to jot it down. I always bungled the order of science and social exams. I would go prepared to take the social exam.. but once in the exam hall the question paper would be that of science. Of course, I never once failed my exams and I actually would get more marks for the science exam in the end (I love science. always)

So you get the fair picture right. I have had trouble with timetables all my life. I never could plan out my study before the exams. While the rest of my classmates had the art of preparing for the exams down to a science of their own, I would go with the flow of neurons in my brain. Read what I felt like - Often Forsyth, Ludlum or Grisham.. so much so that my mom would issue a blanket ban before my exams towards any novel or magazine of any language

I have been deeply pondering the question of timetables and my own lack of discipline and planning. The verdict is that, I need to think more. For, so long their only impact or lack of was towards my studies, I did not suffer much. Till I got married.

And then things changed. I have to multitask. I have to be part homemaker and part student. Which in spite of a thoroughly helping husband is still tough to do. Part of you just wants to get buried in the textbook and the other part keeps screening pictures of dishes not done, laundry waiting or a living room worth running away from. Sigh.

I learnt it the hard way last semester.In lieu of this I have decided to go towards a more structured approach towards balancing my studies and the rest of the stuff in life. I do not want my studies or my husband.. or my blog to have to suffer this year. And hopefully with a bit of creativity I might be able to jump through this hoop of fire.

Any suggestions?

Its all about time management and multitasking.. and timetabling right? right??

Timetable - while the strict one can not be followed, the lax one you have made need not be followed.  - brainstruck.com