The Everyday-ness Of Everything

This is in response to John Holton’s Writer’s Workshop

The word prompt is : Theory

Theoretically, all days are the same – consisting of 24 hours, 1440 minutes and 86400 seconds.  Measurement of a day is calculated based on Earth’s rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun.

(The Earth takes 24 hours to rotate counterclockwise around its axis and 365 days in a year to  revolve around the sun.)

But are all days really the same ?

The day before yesterday I had a good and sound sleep at night, woke up fresh, did my daily exercises and Pranayam, ate a healthy breakfast on time, did the daily chores, had a sumptuous lunch, relaxed in the afternoon, saw TV after dinner, had a chat with my friend, browsed through the daily and read a book before retiring to bed.

Perfect ???

I got up at about midnight and couldn’t go back to sleep. As a result I got up late next morning, didn’t feel like doing the exercises and rushed through the Pranayam, skipped breakfast, got into an irritable mood, had an argument with the maid, dashed through lunch, felt drowsy in the afternoon, watched a few episodes of a serial for some distraction but couldn’t enjoy, halfheartedly munched through dinner and went to bed early.

The same 24 hours , 1440 minutes and 86400 seconds but not the same anymore which indubitably proves that there is a big difference between theory and practice.

As time is dispassionate about humans so are humans not bound by the neutrality of time. While scientists have tried to tie down time into units of measurement, the fallacy lies in the inability of us humans to be in tandem with it, to enact our daily roles in precision with the hands of the clock without any single deviation or distraction.

And what if by some cosmic whim the earth decides to slow down (or rush through) on its axis and cogitate on reviewing the whole equation of yearly revolution around the sun?

Won’t all the bag full of theories of astrophysics go haywire?

Won’t the expostulations of science be upended?

And what about us humans ?

Will we go about our routines in slow motion or dart through to follow the new regime ?

Or just run against the grand clock as we always do in search of that perfect pace when everything will fall in place as per our own whims and fancy?

I see the thinkers, philosophers and the best of human brains scrambling over sheafs and sheafs of formulae rewriting all the hitherto theories in vogue while that unseen watchmaker has a good belly laugh over the perplexing rigmarole squatting in a quiet corner of his universe.