YOU THINK YOU HAVE TIME

YOU THINK YOU HAVE TIME — The Years You Have Already

Lived Passed Like a Second. What Makes You Think the Years Ahead

Will Move Any Slower? Stop for a moment. Look backward. Your

childhood. Your school days. Your parents when they were younger.

Your first job. Your marriage. Your children growing up. Your struggles.

Your achievements. Years—perhaps decades—have passed. Yet

how long do they feel today? A blink. Now look forward. Ten years.

Twenty years. Thirty years. Why do they suddenly look so long? This

is one of life’s greatest illusions. The future looks enormous until it

becomes the past. And there is something even more important:

You don’t actually know how much future you have. In YOU THINK YOU HAVE TIME, Dr. Abhishek

Gilara explores the dangerous little word that quietly postpones some of life’s most important responsibilities:

Later. Later, I will take care of myself. Later, I will spend time with my family. Later, I will start that

important work. Later, I will give back. Later, I will serve. Later, I will become spiritual. But what if “later”

is the greatest assumption we make? Through personal experiences, reflections on time and mortality, and

his philosophy of karma, dharma and surrender, Dr. Gilara asks the reader to examine seven responsibilities

that should not remain indefinitely postponed: Oneself. Family. Work. People. Country. World. Nature.

This is not a book about fearing death. It is a book about respecting life. Plan for decades. Build for generations.

Dream beyond your own lifetime. But do today’s portion of your duty today. Because you do not

need to know when your final day will come. You only need to know what must not be postponed while

the ECG line is still moving. Do your karma. Follow your dharma. Love while you can. Serve while you

can. And when genuine control ends, surrender. You think you have time. Your past already knows how

quickly it passes.