Hey Kids, What Time Is It?

Some mornings I leave extra early to get to work. Sometimes I get stuck behind a slow moving vehicle for a long time. Sometimes I stop to get coffee (and of course my beloved Toffee Almond Bar) at Starbucks. When I get into work, I sometimes put a lunch in the fridge before sitting down. Other times, I go to the back and buy a soda. But whatever I do in the morning, every time I sit down at my desk, the clock on my computer says 7:24.

This morning, for example, I was a little late leaving the house, I didn't get stuck behind any tractors, I stopped at the McDonald's drive-through, but I didn't get any food because they were out of yogurt. I put my lunch in the fridge and sat down at my desk. It was 7:24.

I started to wonder if people have an internal clock that regulates out all those different variables in order to put us where we need to be at one given time. I know I've been able to wake up in time for work even when my alarm clock doesn't go off. Maybe this internal clock actually shapes some of my decisions without me even knowing it. To go one step further, maybe meeting other people who each have their own internal clock resynchronizes our own, so that there's an entire schedule of events that works itself out in any given group of people, entirely within our subconscious.

Then I realized that my clock was just stuck.