"Repent, Harlequin" Blog #6

I enjoyed reading this story, but I would not want our society to live that way. In a sense, we do life that way because everything revolves around time. We are always planning for the next thing to happen, always moving or anticipating something. This society they were living in didn't give them to opportunity to take a second to stop and smell the roses. Instead it that happened, they would get less time on their life to even think about roses. The whole routine of going to work at a certain time, or school, appointments, is all just the same thing different day. Why live your life always planning the next step you will take to get you somewhere on time. I don't want to be on my death bed wondering why I did the same thing all my life. No one wants to face the fact that we do have a clock on our life and we will never know when it will show up. Just like in to story, no one wanted to face to Ticktockman or say that to his face. Everyone knew he was there but they didn't want to have to face the fact that he had the ability to decide their fate. No one should have the ability to decide how long or short someone lives. But when Harlequin faces the Ticktockman, he proves to him that he doesn't have that ability. Because the clock was a little off and the Ticktockman was late, he wasn't going to have to pay to consequences because he knew he was in charge. Time should not punish you, it should give you life and joy. It shouldn't be something that's always there but just a distant thought for reference.