The Exposure of Introspective Truths of One's Existence through the Charting of Microcosmic Coincidence in the Otherwise Uninvolved.
This watch I carry keeps pretty good time. It's good-looking, showy, and certainly looks a lot more useful and valuable than it really is, but it keeps good time. Wind it up and it happily ticks away the time for a day or two until its charge is expired and it goes on to do whatever watches do when they sleep. As it falls into ennui, it counts every second with precision and exacting care, making sure not to miss one. It isn't the best watch out there- it's long since been replaced by ones that hold longer charges and count time with even better precision. In fact, the only reason it's been reproduced in this age is for looks, style, fashion and elegance associated with antiquity by default. It isn't old, though. All the parts and pieces in it were produced around the same time all the other parts of all the new watches were. Put together in the same sort of factory, and sold at the same store.
It's a silly old thing, really. One of these days there won't be any place for watches like it. People will need something that just says the time simply and concisely without looking like anything at all. I guess there won't be any place for me, either.
This watch I carry keeps pretty good time. It's good-looking, showy, and certainly looks a lot more useful and valuable than it really is, but it keeps good time. Wind it up and it happily ticks away the time for a day or two until its charge is expired and it goes on to do whatever watches do when they sleep. As it falls into ennui, it counts every second with precision and exacting care, making sure not to miss one. It isn't the best watch out there- it's long since been replaced by ones that hold longer charges and count time with even better precision. In fact, the only reason it's been reproduced in this age is for looks, style, fashion and elegance associated with antiquity by default. It isn't old, though. All the parts and pieces in it were produced around the same time all the other parts of all the new watches were. Put together in the same sort of factory, and sold at the same store.
It's a silly old thing, really. One of these days there won't be any place for watches like it. People will need something that just says the time simply and concisely without looking like anything at all. I guess there won't be any place for me, either.
5 comments:
I love you.
It's as simple as that.
The place for you is in out hearts, not in time.
Excellent diatrabe, old boy! However, in order for there to be a building, there must be the old pillars that support it. Once those pillars are removed, not only does the building lose its elegance, but it is more likely to collapse.
We are the pillars of our worlds.
Ok, here I go...
I'll take your thoughts for what it is as I see it... okay the watch is a fashion statement yes, useful but he wonders as he ponders... is there more?
How does it relate to the author's existence? I guess there were times he questions his very own...
Hopefully in time he'll figure it out or perhaps not.
But one thing is for sure he's acutely aware of death as when time is no more... but I do not sense any fear at all...
~.~ JOey
Pocketwatches are a disappearing accessory, keep it around, the beauty of one will never outlast the soul of the person that holds it.
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