‘Moment’
is an informal way of referring to time, I feel. It tells about the duration of
an event taking place in a certain stretch of time. We hear people blabbering
about ‘happy moments’, ‘joyous moments’, ‘helpless moments’, ‘pleasing moments’
and those ‘anguished and miserable moments’. Not even a single day passes when we do not intercept any
‘sentence’ flowing through air which does not contain this particular term
‘moment’.
It is simply incongruous for me to figure out
what the exact duration of a ‘moment’ is. Is it as small as the mathematical
notation called epsilon "ɛ" in
differential calculus or is it as enormous as the infinity itself? When any
person sees something which is highly unexpected, he gets perturbed for an
instant. The so-called ‘moment’ could be as small as ‘epsilon’. For a convict
lodged in a prison in absolute isolation, a ‘moment’ could be a prolonged
period of time, say 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 years or so, depending upon the tenure
he has to serve inside the prison. This is because the string of thoughts
reigning within his mind remains the same over an extended period of time,
implying that a ‘moment’ of his thrives very long.
I am of the belief that a ‘moment’ is made up
of a cohesive stream of thoughts and thought-mediated actions, which survives
for a definite period. Not to mention, a ‘moment’ leads to the next one once
the cohesiveness of the thoughts gets snapped.
--- to be continued
