When we are waiting in anticipation for something to happen, we seem to be looking at reluctant moving clocks with sticky hands that don’t really want to move.

The time for our big event seems to be far away, but when the big event does come, unseen hands seem to oil the clock pointers, and all the clocks seem to speed up, and things are over in a flash.

Or maybe it just seems that way.

Ken Jones, Katikati.