Clocks that disagree
119 days till I write JEE. 526 days since I stepped into a new school. 22 days since I published my debut book. I’ve been thinking a lot about these numbers lately. They feel important. But more than anything, they remind me of how time moves. Or rather, how it runs. The other day, I walked into a small shop that fixes watches and clocks to run an errand. It was a tiny corner store whose walls were covered with clocks. Wall clocks, desk clocks, antique clocks, digital clocks. Every surface was covered in time, or so it seemed. And yet, not a single clock showed the same hour. Some were fast, others slow, a few frozen entirely. All of them disagreed. Standing there, surrounded by the soft ticking and humming, I was oddly fascinated. Time is always running, but where to? That thought wouldn’t leave me. We treat time like a universal truth, something absolute. But clearly, even clocks can't agree on where we are. The longer I stood there taking pictures of the pretty clocks, the more ...