The Ticktockman

He decides you must sleep now because if you don't sleep, you won't have 8 clock-hours of sleep before you wake up for tomorrow morning lecture. However, you lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling with countless thoughts, yet trying to fall asleep because you have to.

He decides that you only have 2 hours to get what you want on the streets. As a result, you have to shop for what you need, objectively. He doesn't allow you to see other things or stop for a drink, because he doesn't wait for you. If you don't listen to his instructions, you will be late for your appointment.

He decides you have to leave the place now, even though it's been great sitting down chatting with your friend on almost anything you can think of. He forced you to return to reality. You have to leave if not he will make you pay for the probable consquence of missing the bus. However, you left feeling that the conversation shouldn't have ended so fast.


He says that you should have him on your mind every moment. If you lose track of him you might not be able to finish your exam papers when the examiner ask you to put down your pen. You will not be able to swim fast enough. However, you realise that the more you think of him, the faster he race across your mind, such that with him around, you are never able to complete all the maths questions, never able to swim fast. When you lose track of him, the span of the moment is infinite. Your mind is on what you are doing, not on him.

He says that racing against him is productivity, and productivity is speed. In his perspective, speed is the only way to compete with an edge over others. If you are doing nothing, you are wasting away your life because he says that life is a continuum of events after events, the void of doing nothing should be avoided. But peace of the mind, clarity of thoughts, and internalisation of virtues and values are realised through comtemplation in the void.

He says you must stop writing now because its time to sleep.