My watch of twelve years ran out of ticks We left it in the garage window hoping the sun would revive its solar heart and there it stayed face to face with time royalty unmoved. I have meant to buy another but these days watches are jewellery or else Bond-like devices that answer seven purposes on one tiny screen: either way, an extravagance in my opinion. A year later, and I paddle through days conscious only vaguely of the precision instrument the sharply pointed hands of human time keeping. Illness has given me that luxury; that simple drift like shadows around their plants only occasionally alarmed into consciousness by my phone or just a sudden curiosity. But still, I miss my watch. Perhaps I’ll get one for Christmas.
Written for Miz Quickly’s Oct 19 Prompt.
What do you do with time? Chase it? Kill it? Make it? Herd it into nifty little slots with asterisks and bullets?
Let that be your prompt today: Write about dealing with Time.
Out of the Cave 
An additional bonus to retirement: watchlessness.
You’re right: clocks are everywhere. For the most part, watches are mere jewelry.
Nice work. Thanks.
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Thanks, Ron.
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I love this. Really captures your changing perception of time, and the descriptions of the watches are excellent
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Thanks, JYP. Your comment feels generous. 🙂
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Really nice. I like not having to obey a watch anymore – at least most of the time… it feels like freedom
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Yeah. I just feel lost in the days sometimes.
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I get that. Freedom but no purpose. But, most of the time I’m OK.
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love the pun of the tiyle and how time has acquired a new meaning for you; I haven’t owned a watch in decades; my mobile keeps me informed when I need to be but most of the time I drift 🙂
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Yes. Lots of people use their mobiles instead of watches. I just don’t function well that way. I get distracted by a message somebody has sent and fail to actually check the time. Or I don’t have my mobile with me when I want to check the time and have to wander around the house to find it (you can tell I”m absent-minded). I go into into the kitchen to check the time on the oven and then find myself turning on the kettle instead. Truly hopeless. A watch is definitely a better option if I actually want to stay tuned with the time. Otherwise, drifting has been pleasant. But by CHristmas *touch wood* my treatment will be mostly over and I hope that life will pick up more “normal” activities like volunteering at school etc
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glad you’re on the improve, Worms 🙂
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Love the line “face to face with time royalty”.
Will you get a new one? Only time can tell.
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😆 so true
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