Time and flash

A lot of people say that before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes.

I used to say... How can a person's whole life fit into the split seconds before his demise?

But here's the thing about time - Einstein was right when he said that time was relative.

This would mean that 'time' as we know it exists in different forms for different people, at different points of their lives.

Heavy... isn't it?

Let's take on a few examples to help explain this theory.

First, let us have a look at a university student who is hanging out with his friends at the mamak, having a few drinks, lepaking, or watching the Premiership game on a widescreen TV. You can that for him every time he looks at the clock an hour would have passed without him realising it.

Next, let us have a look at someone who is fasting in Ramadhan and stuck indoors on a scorching hot day, not having anything in particular to do. The clock just can't move fast enough. He waits and waits patiently for Maghrib call to break the fast, and thinks that 30 minutes have gone by. He looks at the clock and discovers that only 5 minutes have gone by.

And that is how time is relative.

Now compress that into the the moments you have before the angel of death comes calling, and you could possibly fit in your whole life into those milliseconds.

I hope my life story can be a good flash.