
I know I'm young, and I'm not very reckless, but time is still of the essence. And I wonder why I worry about it so much. My grasp of time has always been skewed in a pretty severe manner. I cannot tell the difference between an hour or a minute passing. If I have no clock for an entire day, I will be completely unable to tell what hour it is, or what of it has gone. This has been the case for as long as I can remember. But as the Mad Hatter said, "[Time] He won't stand beating. Now, if you only keep on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!" Being nice and asking favors of time could be a simple remedy, I suppose. I have figured how it turns enough to only be a bit over slightly misguided, and not completely dumb-founded. However, it may be in my best interest to quit standing over how time runs, and instead of how I am spending it.