TIMELY NEWS
It is with a heavy heart today that
I share this timely news.
A favourite clock has taken to
doing the unbelievable! It has thrown off the yoke of responsibility and has conferred
upon itself a new daily routine! Chief among the changes is that it chooses to
display on its face whatever numbers it happens to fancy. Disappointing really, considering that its
role in life when we adopted it from the store was to take on the daily
responsibility for the routine of getting a child up and out to school, be on
call all day and then accompany him/her to sleep at night. To abandon all
responsibilities just because of aging is simply unconscionable. What kind of
example is that to the younger clocks?
Where would they have started – these
thoughts such as letting the numbers roll around however they want and stop
whenever they feel like it?
On the other hand, why shouldn't an
old clock be able to enjoy a bit of freedom before the final sad unplugging!? Maybe
it should be able to pick any hour or any minute and re-live the quietness of early
mornings or the alarming jangle of its youth (which, if truth be told, was more
like a loud and annoying buzz saw to anyone in the room, but memories are often
romanticized).
In the vein of the antics of the
person in the poem, "When I am old I shall wear purple", I am beginning
to think that it must have been hatching these thoughts of freedom for some
time. On another other hand, perhaps we
should be celebrating such freedom - a sort of emancipation from the tyranny of
time and the regular work-a-day world.
It has been our pleasure to have
the clock in our family all these years and we've made the timely decision that
we're not going to chuck it out now just because it's developed a quirkiness or
two. It deserves to enjoy its retirement
however it chooses to use it!
1 comment:
Haha! That clock deserves to retire... where old clocks go to wind down and... retire! You should ask the under 30s you know what that item is. Museum anyone?
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