"Watching the days burn out like a cigarette
Just a few drags to go..."
I don't wear a watch - I can't stand to watch my life tick away. Second. by second. by painstaking second.
The sun rose in the morning - now it's setting and nothing much happened in between. I'm always saying 'maybe tomorrow', but tomorrow comes and goes and nothing changes. Sometimes I get so neurotic, it feels like my life is slipping away like water in my fingers - and there's nothing I can do to hold on to it.
"So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home"
It's all very well saying 'maybe tomorrow', but today was a tomorrow, and tomorrow not going to be any different... or is it?
I hate being pessimistic.
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i don't wear a watch but it's because i don't like working on some one else's concept of time. plus i lose a lot of watches, lol.
anyways, choose to live your life. life will not choose you to live it, especially if your days are wasting as you say. i know you can do it.
Hi there mini-me,
I also stopped wearing watches when I was the same age as you (no, I won't add "that was xxx years ago").
It's like having a machine on your wrist that tells you you're dying. A tick closer to the end.
Watches are an invention by Swiss crooks who'd have us believe we don't have an biological clock.
I would get so stressed I was late for everything, I'd look at my watch all the time.
I stopped watches altogether, stopped stressing, and surprisingly stopped being late as well.
I have to keep my watch on. I go crazy not knowing what time it is.
However, I don't have a compass. I'm also trying to find my way back home.
"i don't know . . ." is another way of throwing away a mask. if you master this one, it will make you a learner for life - which is invaluable.
btw, i don't wear a watch either!
"i don't know . . ." is another way of throwing away a mask. if you master this one, it will make you a learner for life - which is invaluable.
btw, i don't wear a watch either!
Not...wear...a...watch? But I love my watch. It has Tinkerbell on it. *clutches wrist close to chest*
I can survive without a watch but I feel naked without it there. If I forget to wear my watch I feel like something's off. It's not even because I'm obsessed with time. It's my accessory. And, come on, it's Tink! Let's not mention the time I forgot my glasses and couldn't figure out why I couldn't read the poster without getting a headache. Sigh. Some days I worry about me.
But...but...no watch? Gasp! Although I do take it off when I'm on the laptop at home. The constant click, click, click as metal hits plastic slowly drives me nuts.
k - watches always stop working on my wrist, like my body's rejecting them!
I will try to live my life.
faltenin - damn, and i thought you were gonna let it slip there ;)
yep, you got me exactly! but whether or not i have a watch, i'm still ALWAYS late!
angel jr - well, that's something! I don't think I ever need to know what time it is, unless I have obligations... and my internal clock is crap!
chinna - have to think about that one...
jenna - forget glasses, i wear lenses :)
actually there was a time i felt like that about my watch - and my mums like that...
Tink! how cute!!
guerilla - it's called a cellphone (for emergency usage). actually, weirdly enough i understand what you wrote, which means i am as screwed as you...gulp
Put this in a verse Laila, you seem to have a natural talent.
I don't wait for things to happen, i make things happen and goof it all up most of the time. Sitting and doing nothing is a right thing to do for me.
I don't wear a watch too, I have my own time and space. But I have to come back to world's time if I have to go somewhere.
and I don't have a mobile. Pretty uncivilised guy I am Laila.
Thank you, Rauf
I actually admire you for being able to live by your own time, I wouldn't call you uncivilised.
But then again what is civilised an is it a good thing or a bad thing to be?
I am glad you asked that Laila, I have no clue myself, I have lived with un educated tribals, I have followed illiterate shephards with their flock of sheep in the Himalayas for months, I found them to extremely gentle and more civilised than me.
Once George Bush said after some disaster 'the entrire civilised world is apalled' I wanted to know which is the uncivilised part of the world on this planet.
Roughly speaking, people who wear clothes are civilised perhaps. Or the people who don't live in caves are civilised ? I have lived in caves.
All the bloodshed and the wars are caused by the civilised intellectuals, who wanted to impose their brand of 'good' or their philosophy on the others.
This doesn't answer your question Laila. As I have told you I have no clue myself.
You know I wouldn't say civilised is about whether you can read or write, or wear the latest fashion, or even know what's happening in the world.
I would say to be civilised is to have love in your heart, to understand the earth or at least try to, to not want to cause harm to anything unecessarily, to be peaceful....all those good things which the "civilised" part of the world seems to have lost along the way.
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