Caught In The Web of Time…

Busyness or business? To an inattentive listener they can sound quite close and up to the 18th century they meant the same thing.

One way or another, both can cause prolonged absences from the various social platforms where most of time is spent these days.

Is there a timepiece for that, one to measure how long someone or something has gone AWOL? I think I have seen evidence of some mechanism keeping count, in days and weeks and maybe years.

Reunions with old friends usually start with mutual apologies, the tender ritual of reconnecting and maybe some swallowed-up pride mixed with resentment.

But what if time does not exist after all? Then we could come and go without the burden of having to explain lapses and silences.

Fortunately, on social media a background ‘chess clock’ is stopped and started every time we re-emerge from our business/busyness and friends can choose to talk to us again.

It’s still a good excuse, that one, that time does not exist.

As this is the first Timepieces post after a very long time, it almost feels like it is also absolutely true.