h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My chance to spout off? Sounds damn good to me. My particular gripe at this very moment is jet lag. It is unnatural for anyone under eighteen (and most over) to be awake early enough to see the sun rise.

I propose that we remove the concept of measured time altogether. It's overrated and people give it too much credit.

I refuse to wear a watch. Putting yourself in constant contact with "time" at all... times will make you grow old too soon.

Think about it. Time passes, whether we are measuring it or not. You've had days that seem to go on forever, right? And moments that you wish would never end?

There is absolutely no way to accurately decide when one unit of time begins or ends. The sun? Winter days are shorter, summer's are longer. The tides? From the time table in my hotel room at Spanish Head, OR, I'll assume that they're irregular as well. Your heartbeat? Speeds up, slows down, all the time. Without our little ticking machines, we don't exactly know when one day begins and another ends.

I'm sitting here right now beside one of those mechanical little timers where the dial spins around. It can measure an hour. I set it on fifteen minutes. Every once in a while, it stops ticking, and stops measuring time. To get it to work again, I have to give it a whack with a book. From this I have concluded that even our current methods of measuring time are wildly fallible and inaccurate.

And without the concept of measured time, everyone else on the west coast would be properly awake, instead of sleeping in until nine like I feel like I have.