This is good indeed, and reminded me in a way of a couple of musings on time that I found somehow enlightening at a particular turning point in my own life: It

This is good indeed, and reminded me in a way of a couple of musings on time that I found somehow enlightening at a particular turning point in my own life: It was Grandfather’s watch and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it’s rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father’s. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. [...] I dont suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You dont have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear. [...] It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. William Faulkner — the Sound and the Fury