Try to imagine
life without timekeeping
You probably can't. You know the month, the year,
the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or on the
dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time
for dinner or a movie.
Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds
are not late. A dog does not check its watch.Deer do not fret
over passing birthdays.
Man alone
measures time.
Man alone
chimes the hour.
And, because
of this,
man alone suffers a
paralyzing
fear that no other
creature endurs.
A fear
of time running out.
