Southern Alps, France.

Peisey Nancroix of Savoie, France

Time.

Why is time so important. The keeping of time and the watching of time. Every single part of every single day is counted up or down by time. 

Which way are we going in the world? backwards or forwards?

Are we counting down to the end? or just counting in general?

Everything, or close to everything is measured in units of time, and if it is not then I'm sure we could arrange it. 

But why do we want to measure everything in time? Is it our need to count? I started to think about this over the new year. How one ends and another begins, but yet the first of January is just the next day, another day. But it is so significant. Why do we put so many things off until the beginning of a new year? The first of January should just be the next day, we shouldn't have so many expectations for it. If we are going to, then there should be as many expectations for the first of December or August, or even the 19th of July, why isn't that day as important as the first of January?

I'm so sick of counting time. I'm so sick of everything being dominated by time. I would love to be able to live by the light of day. Have no need to know what the time is. No need to eat at breakfast time or lunch time or dinner time, but just to eat when I'm hungry. To sleep when I'm sleepy. And to play in between. As punctual as I can be, as we all can be, if we didn't have time, we would never be late. 

Do you think that people could trust us to do work, to be employed but not have set hours, just an amount of work that needs to be done? No timely deadlines, no arrival or departure times. I think the world would a calmer place if there was no time. I think there would be more trust, less people would want to break rules, as there would be less rules to break. I do realise that in the larger, wider world, time may have some importance. Public transport may need a time schedule, flights, trains, buses and trams. Beyond that...

'Time is of the essence', why?

Time is merely a way of counting to the next event, the next deadline, the next day.