those few seconds...

While switching on your beloved computer,you sometimes see the black screen and the seconds left for your computer to start automatically, well that happened to me right now and like most people I was way too impatient and almost hit the F8 key which would not have helped me much!
While I was waiting for the seconds to drag, I realised how those few seconds were important to me while I was out there writing out my examination papers, while I was out there trying to beat my friend in swimming underwater...those few seconds meant a lot..still means a lot! This obvious revelation hits us only when its least expected and to think that we do stuff to "kill time"..Ouch!! that hurts!!....a lot!