About Time
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As a child I would sometimes stand in front the 70’s styled fireplace and gaze into the face of the wooden wind-up clock that sat upon the thin mantelpiece.
I was fascinated by the gentle ‘tick-tock’ and by the way the minute hand only appeared to move when you were not looking directly at it.
On a few occasions I even attempted pressing my nose right up against the clock face to try and detect movement.
Now, the minutes, hours, days, months and years move by at a greater speed and sometimes I wish I could stand in front of that clock again – and not see the minute hand move.
Posted by: Leeroy Lugg
Have you tried it? I suspect that if you spend a few minutes staring at a minute clock hand, it might slow right down again, even today.
I know what you mean though. Time does speed up overall.
— Ben · Oct 15, 08:25 AM · #
That old clock; we’ve all looked at it when we were young, and have mourned the passing of the hours since.
We are getting old.
Let us hope we are wiser.
— Jerry Johnson · Oct 15, 08:38 PM · #