Question

Expand the idea on your own on the following topic.

Time and tide wait for none

Answer 1

The proverb ‘Time and tide wait for none’ illustrates the significance of time. We may take time for granted but it keeps slipping away. Young or old, rich or poor, time does not discriminate; it does not wait for anyone! Likewise, tide, too, waits for none. Regardless of where you stand, the tide will take its course. It comes and goes when it has to. Similarly, life goes on, and to fulfill our dreams we need to make the most of every passing moment. We need to focus only on what matters and disregard anything which is detrimental to our development. A couple of stories based on the proverb ‘time and tide wait for none', for you to understand the true worth of the proverb.

Once there lived a poor farmer in a village in India. His whole family depended on the farm products he generated throughout the year. Like he does every year, the farmer had sown the crop, in a particular year. When the time of harvest came, he needed to go to the city to hire laborers for that. He started postponing this, thinking that he still has time, while all the other farmers have harvested their fields much in advance. Even his wife’s persistent persuasions couldn’t get the farmer to go to the city and get laborers. He was simply postponing it, thinking that nothing could happen with a delay of a couple of days. However, one day he decided that he would be going to the city. It so happened, that on the same night, a very strong storm came into the village. The winds were so strong that even big trees were uprooted.

Our poor farmer’s complete crop was destroyed in the storm. Regret not valuing time and harvesting the crops without delay. Had he done that, he wouldn’t have faced this situation. Nevertheless, it was useless to regret now, because time and tide wait for none, and they haven’t waited for our farmer.