Okay so I was just trying to not be late for once, staring down at my phone, and it hit me.
A collective hallucination we all signed up for so we could stop showing up to the function at random hours.
And clocks have been lying to your face for centuries.
Back in the day, towns would have one big clock, and it was basically vibing on its own schedule.
Then trains showed up and everything went sideways, because you can't have a train schedule if every city is living in its own little time bubble.
Just drew lines on a map and went "yeah, that's a thing now." 🌍 Then the railroads and governments needed everyone synced up, so standard time got pushed hard.
Fast forward to now and we're all slaves to the atomic clock.
That thing is so precise it won't lose a second for like 300 million years.
That hyper-accurate clock in Boulder, Colorado?
Your phone, your laptop, the microwave, all of them check in with the official time lords to stay in sync.
If that clock sneezed, the entire internet would have a meltdown.
Scientists literally have to add "leap seconds" sometimes because Earth's rotation is not keeping up with our fancy atomic clock.
The planet is out here being lazy and we're just patching it with software updates.
So next time someone tells you to "manage your time better," just know you're trying to manage a fictional character.
Honestly, the whole thing is kind of freeing.
If time is fake, then being "late" is just a social construct, and your 3 a.m. doom scroll is technically right on schedule.
Final Thoughts
Is time real or are we all just trapped in the world's longest group project?