Clocks

Have you ever counted how many clocks you have in your house?
Out of curiosity, I did. After doing so, I counted 16 clocks in my entire house! In every room there was at least one. My house has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living rooms and one kitchen. I discovered that the kitchen had the most clocks: there were five clocks. It got me thinking, why do we need so many clocks? As I was pondering this I soon came to an answer.

It seems as if nowadays time is everything. If you can't hang out it's because you have "no time", and if you're not doing anything you have "too much time" on your hands. What does time really have to do with anything? People in Africa don't have clocks and yet they survive fine (I mean, excluding the disease and such) and seem to be enjoying themselves to the fullest. In North America most things seem rushed. For example, if you're late to work or school etc. that means that you're not "on time". And when we are not "on time" we all panic because it's just how we were taught. Everyone has the same amount of time in a day (24 hours) and yet most people can accomplish more in that time than others. Why is this so? Why can't we just survive without time and rushing? Is a time-less society too Utopian? Ponder these, until next time. Cheemo!