Timing is of the essence

[sadim]

• "Time, why you punish me?

Like a wave crashing into the shore
You washed away my dreams..." - Hootie and the blowfish - excerpt from the song "Time"

I just like that song. No relation to the post. Not directly. Anyway, let's start.

I'm sure I've written about this before. But chances are nobody ever read it soooooo... if you read it in the past, take a peak again. It's an interesting topic anyway.

Timing.
To me, that word has a very profound meaning. It's not just related to time per-se, but the whole analysis of the environment that surrounds us. To have a good timing is to do something right at the right time. The quick-witted remark, the intelligent question, the intelligent answer, all of those pass a "timing-check": If you think of a workflow it would be something like this:
-EVENT:

1. Correct occurence?
2. YES.
3. Good timing?
4. NO.
5. Try again.

The concept of right or wrong itself involves timing, in many occasions. 2+2 = 4 (let's leave at that, since I'm not a mathematician and, therefore, have no desire to pleasure myself explaining to you how that can be untrue in give situations). That will be right regarless of time. Giving a compliment, or asking someone a delicate question, requires more than just the correct words. It involves finesse. Timing.

Ok, now that we've introduced the subject, let's get to the point. Sort of.
I've always had a few, how should I put it.......... paradigms in my mind. One of them is the association of timing and relationships. Being a scheptic person, I don't believe in fate or anything like that. But I do believe that timing can change a relation completely. Because it compiles all the little details in your life. Two people who meet today, if they do so tomorrow, might have entirely different impressions of eachother. Not only specific encounters, but the entire relation is drastically and irrevocably changed by the timing of they're time together. The people I met before graduating from college knew a different me, and I knew a different them. That converges with the whole CHANGE topic I wrote. I know, for instance, that fucked up relationships I had in the past would've been much better today. They would likely evolve. 
We don't have control of timing. Its interference in the world can be only guided a give direction, if we're crafty enough.
I am amazed by how, in retrospect, you can look at a decision and evaluate its timing and, therefore, learn from its success of failure. That learning process always interested me.

Granted, I wanted to write about this for over a week, so now the ideas aren't coming together as nice as they should have. They sound like, well, a derranged man's thoughts, so, sorry.

Better luck next time. Or timing. heh.