“Once upon a time....”We all have heard these lines once in our life time ,it might be bed
time stories ,fairy tales ,granny
narrating the precious treasure hidden in deep sea of our hearts or any
imaginations of perpetual incident from past
as relevant fact or irrelevant fact or
merely myth. Most of have grown hearing this line or piece of phrase,
“once upon time”, and to be honest during childhood story with these lines line
seemed something missing. It might be page from legends who contributed to our
life, or cutie Cinderella or story of demon and Brave prince. And the beauty of
this line or phrase is being used globally, internationally, irrespective of
land boundaries or civilization, custom or culture. Any civilization that
evolved on this planet is sure the most convectional story telling mode is same
and must have same line but different folklore with different flavor.
Wondering why “once upon a time...?”Why....?
Why......? Why.....?Have any one of you all ever though why so? I pity, not
most of us might have even though on it forget about why so? , because, we
think, it’s illogical and non-rational, irrelevant. But honestly,
unfortunately, it’s sarcastically irony! It is logically, relevant and rational
to think so, which unfortunately busy in our schedule and against our so called
intelligent quotient level either we don’t think or we miss to think so! We
all, being so called rational animal never think off, very common logic is
meant to be for common men and women...of course we believe our self to be more
than average above then common super men or women! Forget let’s not perceive
the personal purview.
Any incident, accident or any event, do
state “TIME” and only TIME when it happened, why it happened then, what for it
happened and what was its outcome or net resultant. It might be epic, mythological,
folklore, traditional, legendary, custom, belief, ritual, or any other reason,
base is only and only time. Any incident real or myth, fiction or nonfiction,
does have only one common aspect that took place or likely took place is
“TIME.” We all represent time of our existence, time of being alive and time we
lived here on! Today, we produce the real time value of our existence ,but
tomorrow we will be , may be , excellent example of for coming time period and
will be recreated(as remembrance) as story which would again be narrated as
“ONCE UPON TIME....”
But, just imagine if there is no
“TIME”....? Or in other words time has stopped, or exhausted from life. Just
imagine if the factor” time” is just broken from life, just extinct or
vanished....then? Then? Then? Question arises, then what? Then probably there
won’t be story to be told, to be heard, to be narrated, to beloved, or to be
learnt lesson from. The whole incident or accident without time factor to be
register will be null and hence void to be transacted as transitional story,
will not breathe the life to travel next generations or even timeline. Time is
a password which does not only narrate the transitional value from point to
another but conserves the whole episode as epic to read, write or learn upon
it. Time is only factor stated as continuous, perpetual, unceasing, constant,
non-stop, endless, etc.
In fact time do , only ,represent or
narrate about our extinct or space to narrate fictions and non-fictions around
us ,may be in term of folklore or simply fossil....but it does and only does “states
the STATE of time then”
Unfortunately, some of us are either doing
not understand the factor time or we over understand the time. Most of
ambitious confidently invest and reinvest the time and only few explores and
exploit as limitless limited time as in time. The sarcastic fact of time is it
never let you to run ahead of time for long(though it seems but trust me its
most beautiful dangerous mirage) and it does neither let you run-back as leftover
of its time, only if you live in time! We try to stock time for tomorrow-as
borrowed one, but honestly unfortunately time does not get stocked, it’s only
our stories remains as stock for others to read and learn...only life stories
lived in time!
Today, we all are blessed with time-good
or bad, rich or poor but least we do have time to be changed in right way.
Irrespective of status ,do spare some time , do share some time or nothing much
will be left over to write wrong or right ,tell or say about it.....fiction or
nonfiction. Words only travel, if it ever lived in any dimension of time as
dynamic.
“TIME WRITES STORIES (RIGHT OR WRONG)
BUT
NO TIME THEN NO STORIES”
Once upon time.......
d’pen
Nicely explained....kudoz
ReplyDeletethank you for your appreciation
DeleteI really enjoyed reading this post. The exploration of time and its impact on our stories is truly profound. It's fascinating to think about how every event, whether real or imagined, hinges on the concept of time. Your reflection on the phrase "once upon a time" and its universal presence in storytelling across cultures is particularly intriguing.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the insight that time not only records our existence but also breathes life into the stories we leave behind. The notion that without time, there would be no stories, no memories, and no lessons is a powerful reminder of how precious our moments are.
Thank you for this deep and thought-provoking piece. It has certainly made me more mindful of how I spend my time and the importance of living in the present. Keep up the great work, Dear!
first of all, appreciated for the gesture. We all are responsible to leave a story, irrespective big or small , as a legacy..so that in coming years they read and learn from it.
DeleteVery Good article dear. Really enjoyed reading this post, superb
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