Time is cruel
Time destroys, regulates, judges, and eludes. In and of itself time bring nothing but grieve and sorrow, doubt and failure. There is no avoiding the effects of time, it destroys all it touches. The body nor mind can escape its destructive influence. C...
You made my morning, and most probably my day. Superb post, and top topic of discussion. The collector in question is right, there is no time keeping.
About mechanical watches, you are right again. There is so much poetry, romantic and magic here. Mechanical watches are like us. Trying to reach perfection. With so much soul and humanity. Top topic. THANK YOU! Nicolas
Thank you so much for the feedback.
I'm always anxious when I share the thoughts in my head that it will fail to resonate with others.
Poetry
The post have many faces. You can point the downside of time, but there are also good sides about time. Decay is a part time does, time also create. When somebody dies when the person is very old, a baby born. When a tree is gone, a seed becomes a new tre...
Thanks for your post. [nt]
It reminds me of one of my favorite authors (and loop quantum gravity theorist) Carlo Rovelli. We are all events bumping into each other. And without events there is no such thing as time. It’s all relative. Kind regards, Dan
Really enjoyed your essay. Many thanks for writing and sharing it here.
Much to contemplate...
“If time is cruel, personal time measurement should be merciful, compassionate, and stimulating of the heart and mind.”
A most eloquent justification for every watch purchase we will ever make. Thanks for sharing this.
About a week to ten days
I had been thinking about my relationship with time for a bit but a recent trip to Geneva and opportunity to discuss it with a variety of people brought it to a resolution. Writing itself was about 3 hours over 2 days (draft and edits). I will admit, the ...
Very nice essay.
I’ll admit that while I love my mechanical watches and post occasionally about them, I’m amongst the horde that has decamped to an Apple Watch for daily wear. In many ways, I find it an even more personal device than a mechanical watch as it is not only c...
I don’t know if turning our lives to such devices is a good thing or the good old days were better when we didn’t have such things.
I personally believe that we might have improved many aspects in modern times but perhaps the real quality of life is missing. We have so much abundance at our disposal yet we have no time to sit, relax and ponder as our previous generations did. Everyone...
Very good points and worthy of more thought by all of us.
Thanks for framing your point of view so nicely.
Watch Julian Barbour’s PBS series on “What is time”
Here’s a short but very thoughtful idea of time keeping to add to this very apt thread.
Scott, I’m so glad you posted this
Thank you for sharing more widely these thoughts on an aspect that we all grapple with at some juncture of our lives. That we all love these tiny instruments of time measurements is our mutual and shared passion. With out passion in our lives, I suggest o...