The Daily Write

Time Stops for This Woman

With great power comes great responsibility

Photo by Omkar Jadhav on Unsplash

June 3rd: You are a superhero for the day — what’s your power? What do you do?

I wake up from bed, ready to tackle the day ahead.

I go through the normal ropes of getting out of bed, using the bathroom, and eating breakfast. But on this day, I notice something strange. The clock.

It stopped ticking.

I blink and see the clock restart. Blink. Time stops.

Power rushes through me.

I gaze at myself in wonder of this new power. If I can start and stop time at will, what is there I can’t do?

With all the time in the world at my fingertips, I’m free. Free from the temptress of death.

Time, forever still.

Then I realize. I may be moving, but the world around me is still. It’s frozen in place while I move on in my life.

Time stopped, and so did the rest of the world. What is life without the constraints of time?

There is no urgency.

I use my time in solitude to ponder — and here’s what I came up with.