My watch kept ticking. Whether the atomic clock gains or loses a few seconds doesn't concern me. We each have a time machine in our heads. We can choose how much to live in the past, to live in the future, and to live in the now. People who look five years into the future are usually cooking up thoughts with more impact than those who are pondering tomorrow afternoon.
Historians dig deeper than people trying to remember if they took their medication last night.
The further you look, the more you see. Driving well-trod roads invites falling into ruts. One can waste time editing endless re-runs of events gone by. Because replaying these internal movies holds few surprises, we experience so little change that time just slips away. Cultivating a vision of the future enables us to make wise choices, but people who spend too much time there are dreamers.