In those days, there were timekeepers. They had watches, clocks, and chronometers of all kinds. Some had hands and some displayed numbers. At first, they were able to keep track of the day according to the sun or the moon. Then, they learned how to keep track of the hours. With passing generations, they devised ways to count minutes and seconds. As their timekeeping progressed, they were no longer able to imagine years, days, hours, and minutes. They could only grasp seconds and nanoseconds.
There were others who could not keep time. They were perpetually late or early. They held on to the minutes, the hours, days, and years.
The first group considered the second quaint. You are not living in the present, they said.
-- H. A. Massig המשיג
