CHRONOLOGICAL TIME IS A CONVENIENT FICTION. It’s nothing more than the over-demanding clockhand, going round and round, like the moon. We march to its beat because the people in charge are devoted to it, the teachers, the bosses, the ever-present supervisors. The watches they wear on their wrists are their real hearts, running the lifeblood of everyday life. You get demerits for tardiness, or you lose your job for not starting work “on time.” Yet, in our essential selves, in our heads, our endless thoughts, we do not live chronologically. We go backward and forward and sideways and diagonally. Our reality is in our head, and it is not amenable to chronological control mechanisms. We’re simply not always plodding forward like servants to some master clock. That’s what memory and fantasy and hope and imagination and creativity are all about. We have annual birthdays that have the role of denoting our chronological age, but is that how old you actually feel? I have felt the same age for several decades now. “We are always the same age inside,” wrote Gertrude Stein. So I wear a watch because, in the outside world, people with whom I like to or have to associate want me to be there at a specified hour, but in my essential nonchronological self, I couldn’t care less what time it is.
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