Pandora DCB Jun. 2014 | Page 4

SPECIAL

SPECIAL

TEMPUS
FUGIT
BY MR. RICHARDS

It seems that there is always a
holiday on the horizon, a goal
within arms reach. We wish away
the minutes, the hours, and the
days that separate us from our
well-deserved break. From our
beaches, that book, family visits
or perhaps just sleep.
Think of all the classroom clocks
worn out by the stares of students
urging the hands ever onwards.
Time, it seems, doesn’t fly at all. It
dawdles, dragging its heels leaving us stagnant, marooned with
Lenin on a Thursday afternoon.

“The bad news is that time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot” - Michael Altshuler

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of the Year 13s, I have been reminded that ten years ago I was
anxiously anticipating my own
impending IB Examinations.

Time is relentless, inexorable and
uncompromising. The truth is
there is very little we can do apart
from live in the here and now.

Recently, following the progress

Tock…

Ten years ago feels like yesterday and yet obviously much has
changed.

Next time you find yourself staring forlornly at the clock, don’t be
so quick to wish your time away.
Everyone is guilty of counting We only have a finite amount.
down the days but teachers and
students possibly more than I’ll leave you with the words of
others. We have compartmen- Abraham Lincoln, “Live a good
talised the year neatly into bite- life. In the end it is not the years
size chunks. Six weeks here, eight in a life, but the life in the years.”
weeks there. Even our day has
been artificially dissected into Tick, tock, tick, tock…
neat 55-minute digestible porTick…
tions.

Photograph © to Aldo Rafael

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