While Away Time

How dependent I have become on clocks! Dependency on schedule is really what it is. How else can I keep track of where I'm going, especially when I absolutely have to be there. Humans have been making clocks, or at least keeping time, for millions of years. We are so arrogant of our species' superiority that we have come to believe that, with the ability to mark it with clocks, we invented time.
We are a very unique species, no doubt about it, but time we did not invent. However we seem to be obsessed with time. We make elaborate schedules to remind us when we are to be at a certain place, meeting, or community affair. And we are quite expert at juggling hours and meetings around when some unexpected event causes a cancellation. On my life that is a stress except when I am not well. Then I put my schedule on hold. I simply hunker down to care for my health.
Time itself will not stand still for me. Nature and time selected Homo sapien to our present state and will press on relentlessly. I'm on for the long haul and happy to hang on for the ride as long as my clock keeps ticking.
Naomi Sherer