I have a watch that I have kept with me for the last 25 years. A watch with a green strap and a red digital kind of dial. This watch is special, it shows only one time all the time — 10:10. It is a toy watch that my father bought for me when I was 4 or 5 years old during a temple festival in the village I’m from. It’s not just this watch, there are many small things I have collected that are a window to my childhood.
When I look at the watch, it brings back memories of my childhood, the freedom, the curiosity, playfulness, enthusiasm and absolute wonder! Above all, I’ve kept that watch simply because I love it very much. Even though it was a toy watch, I wore it when I went to school, and kept wearing it even later when my dad later bought me a real watch that ticked. To me this watch was lovely, it was beautiful. Many of my friends told me that the time it shows is wrong — 10:10 all the time. Logically, I too knew that it was wrong, but ultimately inside me I had a feeling that somehow the time was right.
Later, while I was growing up and I started trying to understand the phenomenon of time, I realized that, in a way, I couldn’t neglect the unchanging time that the small toy watch showed. We may perceive that there is a past, present or future, but time itself has no beginning and no end. Whatever a clock may show, time is eternal, we live in the same time all the time.
I cherish that watch and I am sure there are objects like this you too have collected over time. As you progress, they act as excerpts from your childhood, your life. Preserve them and believe me they have got magical powers of time travel!
Today I am grateful for my gorgeous little green strapped red dial watch…
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