Borrow Time

Ever heard of borrow time? Most of us would have heard of borrow money or buying time or on loan of something. You would have to return the ‘borrowed amount’ or something back to the rightful owner. In our daily lives and activity, sometimes you may request to the other party or partner to give you the time you needed to do something, just like giving you the time and space to do something. Or you could have fail something before and wonder why you could have done better when you are given enough time, space and resources that you may need to complete your task or wish.

Here is a little story about a guy named Rick who wants to borrow time to keep him stay alive to fulfil his childhood dream. Rick is a middle-aged guy, who is diagnosed with a terminal illness a final stage cancer about to die and wish to be given a second chance to realize his dream. Lying in the hospital bed every day and being tormented by the daily treatment of chemotherapy, drugs and medicine was too unbearable for him. Looking back on his lives he seemed to have regretted that he did not take his life seriously when he was younger, always going to pub and entertainment to keep his clients satisfied just to clinched some business deal to keep his business going, sometimes even eat lavishly through the wee hours of the night. Soon his health takes a toll, got worse and ended up in the final stage of cancer, all that he blamed it on himself.

There is nothing that Rick could do now, sometimes he would lament how nice it would be if he was given another chance to live again, a reboot in his live that he craved it for. All that unhealthy signs and symptoms that his body encountered that the doctors once reminded him was fell on deaf ears. Rick did not believe on his health conditions and was self-denial all the times. He wanted to turn back the clock but it was all too late and impossible now. What can he do? He had no answers, he cried and he was too sorrowful, deep down in his heart he felt that he still had this burning desire to fulfil his childhood dream. He still thought that it is now or never but what he can do now lying in the hospital bed waiting for his days were numbered.

When Rick was a child he loved music and he like to sing, he liked to listen to the Beatles’ songs and sang. He could sing pretty well and had a nice soothing voice, most of his friends and peers liked to hear him singing. He didn’t know about his singing talent until he took part in his primary school singing competition. He came in top prize and won his primary school singing competition at a tender age of eight years old. But his parents were not so happy. They wanted him to concentrate on his study and his dream of becoming a singer was dashed.

When Rick grown up, graduated from the university he went on in his life to become a businessman. Throughout his business career, there were ups and downs on the company business that he was working with, sometimes in his business he would go out with his clients for some karaoke singing sessions, many of his clients were impressed of his singing skills. But now all of his hopes and dream to be a singer is all gone because of his cancer. How he wish that he could ‘borrow some time’ to realize his dream once more. Deep down in his heart he quietly prayed to His Almighty Supreme Being to grant him that very last wish, just that one last wish is all he wants and nothing else. And he prayed and prayed in his hospital bed every night  ..

One night, while he was sound asleep he dreamt of compassionate fairy appeared in his dream giving him a ‘kind of a unique mysterious antique special clock’. This special clock had a unique feature of setting a specific time frame in your live to length your lifespan by a specified range. It actually allowed you to ‘borrow time’, after that, when the time is used up it will revert to the normal time once again. The fairy gave Rick the mysterious special clock and miraculously ‘implanted’ in his brain inside his dream and said to him “ ..  With this clock inside your brain, you can go to fulfil your dream. When the time is up, everything will be back to normal and don’t forget to do good deeds..  There you go!”

When Rick woke up, he could not believe what he had dream. Everything seemed to be so real and he remembered what the fairy had told him. He asked himself was it for real, are you kidding me? How could it be? In the next morning he had his body examined by the doctor, went through the body scanning, MRI, blood tests, whatever types of clinical tests by the hospital, to his surprised his health become normal, the doctor was surprised and amazed. It’s a miracle. Very few people had survived through the final stage of cancer in this world. What had Rick done to his body the doctor was curious. Rick replied nothing but have faith and praying helps.

What happens next is everybody guess. You bet it. Rick went on in his life to pursue his dream as a Singer. He took part in the city’s renowned TV Talent show and came in first in the singing competition. A large music company signed him up and he came a famous Singer. Rick’s life was somehow extended with a ‘borrowed time’, he never failed to do good deeds and even participated the city’s charity show to help the weak and the poor. Rick became a famous Singer and led a happy life, he lived till the age of 75 years ago, he could have lived up to the age of 40, that dream change his destiny.  Be grateful of what you have now and remember to do good deeds for your own karma.