It’s always seemed a little strange to me, that people are so fascinated with the concept of time.  I understand the importance of it all, as time is important to keep our lives in order and to coordinate our lives with all the other lives that revolve around us.  Meetings, parties, get togethers, work, and baseball games would all be incredibly difficult to have if we didn’t have the concept of time.  Perhaps, that’s why were so fascinated with all the different ways of keeping track of time.  Most peoples homes will often have a clock or some time keeping device in every room.  Given the fact, that almost everyone wears watches, it does seem a bit overkill to have so many clocks around.  Have you ever noticed, that the one thing in common that almost every electronic gadget has these days, is a clock.  It doesn’t matter, if it’s a cellphone, gps smart phone, net book or laptop, they all have clocks built into them.

I must admit personally, to having a number of watches myself.  I have a workout watch, a dress watch, a casual watch, and even a few fake timepiece watches lying around.  And I don’t consider myself all that obsessed with time.  Of course I don’t have a ton of money for watches, even though I do like the fancier and more expensive brand names.  Too save a few bucks, I’m not above buying a fake Bentley Edition, or Bentley timepiece duplicate to add to my collection.  There’s no point going broke to look good these days, I figure.  And, ever since the advent of digital time keeping, the allure of quality Swiss made watches has gone by the wayside.

But, let’s get back to the original topic, of why time is so important to everyone.  I think it has a lot more to it, then simply getting to your next appointment on time.  It allows us to measure our lives.  Not just where we are, or where we’re going, but where we’ve been.  It’s a way of measuring our lives.  It’s how we keep track of our past accomplishments, and achievements.  We associate certain locations, events and people with a given point in time.  Without that marking of time, how we we remember the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties.  It helps us hold everything together, and try to make sense of our past.  And after all, you all know that old axiom, about those how don’t understand the past are bound to repeat it.  Not that repeating things can be all bad.  I just like to have a little control over the things I choose to do again.