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Here I was sitting in train waiting for my destination to arrive thinking how much long will it take to reach. This is when I noticed the watch of a beautiful girl sitting in the next row seat. Yes for a change I noticed her watch rather than her face. :-) the dial was huge. big enough for anybody sitting in 10 feet distance to be able to read. It showed time which when I checked with mine, was 10 mins ahead of actual time....strange! I said to myself. Then I noticed the watch of guy sitting next to me,his was 15 mins ahead of actual time. strange strange. Although I also keep my mobile watch time 5 mins ahead of actual. I found it unusual. Upon pondering over this , I felt why do people; including me ,do not have correct time. Some say its human psychology to react instantly to what one sees. Keeping the watch ahead helps them manage their activities in time. I think the same way, that's why I also do the same. But then I think why not plan our activities in a manner so that we do not have to fool our own self. By proper planning we can be punctual disciplined and work by the watch without manipulating it. Well that's difficult.. The thing is we are now so used to fooling around that we even fool our brains. Here's one example; watch is ahead of actual time by 15 mins. We have an early morning appointment at 8. We are required to wake at 6 in order to reach at the meeting. so we keep alarm of 6 knowing that its early by 15 mins. then when it rings in morning . we say its ahead by 15 mins. let me take a small 15 Min nap. so you sleep again and in the end sometimes end up waking up late by 15 mins . :-) .Tried to fool the brain but you made it lazy. how? lets analyze it. Had the watch been correct time showing, then you would have had to wake up when the alarm did ring and not snooze it by 15 mins. Somewhere down the line these are small steps towards getting lazy. One may argue that it helps "reLIVE" the time by which your watch is ahead. Well fair argument but then who are we trying to fool? for those who do not follow this practice and reach places at dot time ,this may not be relevant ,but I must say, there are many who do this. This habit leads up to miss the time deadline more often than not. And probably its this long series of events that have made our standard time, so called "The IST " a time which refers not to actual time but 30 mins late. . .

See the scenario in colleges.. how often have you seen the lecture starting at exactly the mentioned time?? Most of the time they start late. Many of us reach in lectures after the starting time, sometime missing due to traffic of at times due to Tea break. ;) aaah my fav.

Its strange but if things worked in sync , if all our watches showed the exact same time and if we all are punctual the problems of lectures starting late, and all other official works would be competed as planned. To Many If`s right.

Strangely one never or hardly finds the problem of punctuality hampering our casual activities,one may also say the in casual events and activities one is never needed to be punctual.

So the whole point boils down to just one question, "Is my, reaching on time actually going to affect the meeting in any manner...???" and more often than not the answer to this is _________

I leave it up to the readers to fill in the blank.....