Timeless Memory

There are some memories that become timeless like well the one timeless memory of when I received my first watch. I must have been eight or maybe ten years old but this memory and the feeling behind it is still fresh and alive like it was yesterday.

My First Watch

I remember I wasn’t really at an age when I had to wear a watch but wanted one. I also knew I would never get my wish. Then on my birthday, I was sitting down and my family rallied around me saying it was a surprise. My father, I had never seen that way he told me to close my eyes and then like magic he put on the watch for me. I was thrilled to bits. I can’t remember clearly but it was a digital wonder with red straps and Mickey grinning. It was not so much the watch but that my father gave it to me. He would be strict on expenses and I was surprised with the gift.

The watch I absolutely fell in love with and I know from that day on I always had a watch on me. They were nice watches not fancy but more practical and cool an extension of myself. They became a part of my skin. I have to confess though I’m very slow at reading the time so I would buy watches with bold, legible numbers because decoding the hands was never my forte. Yes that’s me. I always felt a watch made me a better person someone sharp, hard working and practical.

It’s always there

As a teacher even though we aren’t supposed to pay attention to the time while teaching for me it was needed so I could space out drama games into rehearsal time and performance time. Keeping track was essential in a short thirty minute lecture.

Does a watch remind you that time is essential? That you have to stay productive and utilize the minutes to bring out the best in you? I think it does. It’s a wonder how much you can pack in in an hour and how valuable it is to you to even free up your time later.

The Memory Lasts

That memory and the pivotal moment when my father’s eyes sparkled with joy. I was made to feel special, received a gift I thought might be hard to afford and the happiness in my father’s eyes to make my wish come true. That day on I knew a watch was something precious, a thing of value and of meaning.

A watch reminds you to be careful of your time, measure your productivity, be that one cool accessory you can’t do without, lives on with you through the passages of time and makes you value every hour, every minute, every second and every heartbeat of your life. A watch is timeless.