Time is ticking away, donāt matter if you are a professor or a professional or a prostitute, time is ticking away, what do you intend to do about it?
Build a time machine? Apart from that, there is nothing you can do other than make the most of your available time.
" All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf the Grey, Lord of the Rings.
āAnd then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gunā - āTimeā by Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon.
I was born a little premature (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
[Mom just couldnāt take no more] (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
Had no time to learn to cry
Goodbye, Mama, got to fly
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock
You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
Entered school when I was two (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
PhDād that afternoon (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
Never entered any sports
Didnāt look too good in shorts
Got divorced when I was four (You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock
You gotta beat the clock, you gotta beat the clock)
Iāve seen everything there is
Iāve done everything there is
[Iāve met everyone but Liz
Now Iāve even met olā Liz]
No time for relationship
Skip the foreplay, let 'er rip
You gotta beat the clock, beat the clock
Beat the clock, beat the clock
[I did lots of travelling
Parts of me unravelling]
[The Army then rejected me
Said I had two flat feet]
Wore them out when I was three
Too bad there aināt ten of you
Then Iād show you what Iād do
I could cheat on five of you
And be faithful to you too
But thereās only one of you
Iāve seen everything there is
Iāve done everything there is
[Iāve met everyone but Liz
Now Iāve even met olā Liz
No time for relationship
Skip the foreplay, let 'er rip]
You gotta beat the clock, beat the clock
Beat the clock, beat the clock
(Sparks)
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i dunno about beating the clock, the clocks donāt have tickers, we do, have we created them in our image, did we think it through.
May be a pill for this, a Betaclocker 
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Forget the tick tock of the clock and enjoy living in the moment every day.
I take pleasure wherever I find it - whether in high days and holidays, meeting up with family, socialising with friends, or just having a lazy day pottering in the garden, enjoying watching the bees buzzing amongst the flowerbeds and the clover in my lawns.
Every day is a holiday now and I just go with the flow.
This last few weeks, Iām clearing out my attic - mainly so my dear son wonāt have the chore of clearing it out when Iām gone. Every day this last couple of weeks I have been going up and dragging a few boxes down from the attic and putting them in the garden, then I enjoy a sunny afternoon in the garden sorting through the contents.
A lot has gone off to the charity shops, some dross to the tip and every so often I open a box full of forgotten treasures and find ornaments I love and want to have where I can see them again.
A lot of those treasured ornaments were gifts from family and friends, some no longer here, so it has been a trip down memory lane too, remembering all the folk who gave me those things and the great times we spent together and the love which came with each gift.
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Bring back creepy clocks, more of the gothic, less of the Argos.
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Time has always ticked away Spitty, but like everything elseā¦The rarer it becomes, the more precious it becomesā¦
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Yes and no Foxy, in older age I tend to do far less thinking than at the start āBuckingā the trend seems to matter for some reason.
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I tend to more thinking now Spitty as my body deteriorates and I dream of days gone byā¦
I preempted nostalgia Foxy. 55 years ago
Got the dark matter in the sights now 
Donāt just stare at the dark matterā¦flush it away! 
I think you have found the secret to a happy life. My 90 year old mum keeps lamenting āwhy did I work so hard?ā The message is donāt live to an old age only to regret not enjoying the good times when you are healthy. (I say this and I know I am guilty of the total opposite!)
Itās an interesting psychological study of human behaviour and what drives us. There are those who ādoā and those who enjoy not doing and literally stick two fingers up at the idea of contributing with the view that they shouldnāt have to. Itās an endless struggle in our societies. Where do you draw the line? I try to do a bit of both, but at the same time think perhaps I have my priorities wrong.
Yep, down the Black Hole
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The latest remastering of Time by Pink Floyd 
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