Time
Time - What is it? We all live and die by it, yet we have no idea what it actually is. Time is something that we can set an alarm for so it wakes us in the morning after a tortured sleep, to remind us the meat in the oven is ready, or to meet our best friend in the local coffee shop, but it's also the bane of our lives. Time steals our youth from us all. It makes our once crystal clear and smooth skin, become riddled with wrinkles that seem to grow in number by the hour. Our thick and wavy hair becomes thin and brittle and for some, it disappears forever. Our razor-sharp mind so quick to remember faces and familiar sounds becomes slower with each passing day, leaving us unaware of what is actually happening around us and clouding our thoughts with confusion and frustration. Our sight loses the ability to focus properly over the age of forty or so, meaning we have to wear visual aids like spectacles or contact lenses just to read the label on a ketchup bottle or r...