A wristwatch is like a handcuff to time
3mon 14d ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Someonelol in showerthoughts
You're constantly reminded to check the hour in case you have an appointment to keep
Does that mean a pocket watch is a ball and chain to time?
Sure, and lungs are like handcuffs to air, they constantly remind you to breathe.
You are now breathing manually.
augh could you please not
But did you know you can always see the tip of your nose?
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Kind of missing the whole locked on to your wrist theme.
Analogies are never perfect.
Not if you are a lobster, than it is a clawcuff.
Reminding you that you're late to your business meeting at Red Lobster.
I know what happens there!
you might enjoy Cortazar's Preamble to the Instructions on How to Wind a Watch
Or like a compass, allowing you to steer the vortex of time perception :3
if we don't find that time handcuff then bdsm will never be invented!
That title is the kind of thing the Matthew McConaughey's character in True Detective would say.
Chronos knows what he's doin