Marking Time

It's best not to look at the clock when swimming laps. At least, not often.

Focusing on the minute hand, the number of marks left between you and the swim's culmination gain in signifiance.

Even more true when aqua jogging. Add aqua weights and an unexpected abs workout and stir.

As if you were in the stir.

The international community condemns life without parole as a form of punishment. The psychological trauma is deemed too scarring.

Because there is nothing to do but count off the marks of your time there - in that case, your life.

Better, then, to forget the clock. Or the calendar.

Better to forget that you are marking off the moments of your life. Or the moments between moments in your life.

I've been trying not to look at the clock. And the calendar.

Because, while you are marking off the moments, your life is sliding by. And you have only one.

Luckily, I don't wear my glasses in the pool.