“Every day people sleep, wake up, work, and eat according to the established set of rules we call time. In other words, we set our lives by the clock. Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise. The fact that we have these rules means that we’ve given up some of our freedom. And yet we’ve surrounded ourselves with reminders of that loss of freedom - by hanging clocks on walls and dotting them around our houses. And as if that weren’t enough, we make sure that there’s a clock wherever we go, no matter what we’re doing. We’ve even felt the need to wrap our bodies up in time by going so far as to wrap it around our wrists.” PhilosophyTimeFreedomHuman NatureReflectionRoutineExistentialModern LifeSocial CommentaryCritique Of Society Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“Just as cats don’t have any sense of time, loneliness must not exist for them either. There’s simply the time you spend alone and the time you spend with others.” PhilosophyTimeLonelinessSolitudeMindfulnessReflectionGentleCompanionshipEmotional InsightD With Others Cats Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“I started to get the sense that the endless ticking sound in my head might actually be the sound of the hearts of all the people in the world beating in time with one another.” TimeHumanityWonderMindfulnessEmpathyUnityConnectionPoeticIntrospectiveSensory Experience Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time's rule over us even more precise. The fact that we have these rules means that we've given up some of our freedom. And yet we've surrounded ourselves with reminders of that loss of freedom—by hanging clocks on walls and dotting them around our houses. And as if that weren't enough, we make sure that there's a clock wherever we go, no matter what we're doing. We've even felt the need to wrap our bodies up in time by going so far as to wrap it around our wrists. But now I think I'm beginning to understand. With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety. Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines—despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.” Time Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World