- Break your watch and you'll see what time will turn into, it's very curious. It will change, and you won't recognize it anymore. It will cease to be fragmented, divided into segments, hours, minutes, seconds. Time is like mercury: you crush it, and it will immediately grow together, regain its integrity and uncertainty. People have tamed it, put it on a chain from their pocket watches and stopwatches, and for those who keep it on a chain, it flows the same. But try to release it — and you will see: for different people it flows differently, for someone it is slow and viscous, measured by smoked cigarettes, breaths and exhalations, for someone it rushes, and it can only be measured by lives lived