Clocks

           

What would our world be like without clocks? It seems like clocks are either what slows down the day, or gives us hope. For example as a kid in school you look at the clock pretty much every 5 minutes. The clock seems to make the day slower because the clocks make you realize how slow time is traveling. At the same time clocks can give you hope because when you look at a clock you will always know there are fun things ahead, and if you are going through a bad event the clocks are proof that only In a matter of time things will get better.

            There is always a lot of complaint about the clocks that are usually in schools, you know, just the boring ones that take a little bit of effort to read, in other words they are not digital. I wonder if school administrators ever though that they should put digital clocks in the school. I bet they have, but they realized that it was a school, and what is school without having to think about things, even if it is torture having to look at the clock and figure out it has only been 3 minutes since you last checked the time.

            Something I honestly have pondered a few times is how people when about their lives before knowing the exact time, because there were no clocks, or not many.  How would you know when to meet up with people at the park, or when you needed to be at the barber shop for your monthly trim? I guess things were just simpler then, and clocks were not as needed because their lives weren’t as face passed as they are now. They could just show up around the right time and everything was fine. Now time is detrimental for your job, school, and pretty much, well, everything.

            It’s amazing how the appearance and technology behind clocks has evolved. Clocks are one of the oldest inventions, so I guess time was not much of an issue when clocks were not around because time was determined by how high the sun was in the sky. I think having clocks has messed up with our natural way of doing things. In the “cavemen” years the people did things pertaining to how they felt, for example if they were tired then they went to bed. Now a day if we are tired we don’t go to sleep until the clock hits a certain hour. (417)

            Danni N.