Just In The Niche Of Time

If it's not one thing it's another. Sometimes ten others. I never seem to have enough time at the end of the day. It would be nice if you could bottle time and then when you need it just shake a little bit out. I began thinking about time in a bottle; actually "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. The song was released in in 1972 when I was in high school. I didn't know it then, but he wrote the song for his then unborn son, AJ Croce. Then in 1973 Jim Croce met his untimely death in a plane crash. Three months later his song hit #1. AJ was born and then he suffered from a brain tumor and became blind only to regain some vision in his left eye a few years later.

Wow! I didn't mean to go down that road quite so far. It seems that before I knew it I was wandering and wandering down the road when I only meant to stop and look for a moment.

Now back to my time issue.

I've heard people say before that they were so poor that they couldn't pay attention. Do think time has become devalued just like our money? I mean when I was little bread cost 10 cents a loaf and I had plenty of time to play and have a great time outside. Nowadays, some bread can cost $3 to $4 a loaf; that's the high dollar bread, hand made stuff mind you. I can still find good old machine made Mrs. Baird's regular white bread for under $2; but that is still a far cry from 10 cents.

I guess what I'm saying is that the money to buy the bread is just like time during the day. There simply isn't enough of it. I suppose now that I'm older I have more to do than simply play outside. Maybe I have to work a little; No make that a lot, just to buy that 10 cent loaf of bread that is selling for $2.

You know, I could probably make a million dollars if I could develop dehydrated time. You know what I'm talking about; just add water and poof there you are, more time. I tried making dehydrated water water once. It worked really well, I just added water and there it was. Didn't sell though. I guess there simply wasn't a market niche yet. Maybe now people would buy a bottle of dehydrated spring fed glacier water imported from outer edge of Inner Mongolia. Just Add water! (And Time)

By the way; the title thing up above, I did mean to say "Niche" so don't write to tell me that it should be "Nick" or "Nicholas" or some other such thing.

© 2009 Barry T Horst


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