Time -- Pink floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the
fire Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

Temporary Fixes

There is one module in my application was creating issues from last 3-4 months. When users raised an issue for the first time 3-4 months back in this functionality, I tried to understand this module half heartedly and I could not understand it properly (expected result as I tried half heartedly), and in the end I just applied temporary solution and fixed it :(. Somewhere I knew it will come back but I kindaa ignored it.

Users started raising issues in this specific module regularly and I kept on applying temporary fix to it. I was not at all happy with myself the way it was going.

Last week it happened again and that time I decided to fix this module once and for all. I made up my mind and spent entire 3 days on it.

First I understood the module completely, and then I executed that module in all possible scenarios. At the same time I noted down all issues and situations for it. In the end there was a minor change in 3 stored procedures and 1 change in .aspx page, that’s it and DONE…I fixed that module and everybody was happy. (I was the happiest among the lot :))

Same thing is applicable in our life also; we keep on applying temporary fixes to our problems in life and it keep on coming back to us with more complications.

Whether it’s your life or a software application, Temporary fixes never works.

* It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer
-- Albert Einstein