Wrist Watch The Portable Timepiece That Can Remind Us Of Our Spiritual Nature
I love words. They are tiny windows from which our Soul shines through. Even the most un-educated among us has choices in words. So how do we choose our words?
It is my belief that our true identity, Soul, directs our mind and tongue to use one word and not the other, when both words would convey the same meaning. In these tiny preferences lie glimpses into our heart, our beliefs, our fears and our hopes.
When we say, winding down instead of relaxing, or wound up instead of tense, our fascination with time shows and perhaps our fear of mortality. We choose these words as reminders to ourselves to be watchful.
What does all this have to do with wrist watches? you ask.
In my view, everything.
Wrist watch is a portable timepiece designed to be worn. Its history goes back to shortly after 1500, when Peter Henlein, a locksmith in Nrnberg, Ger., introduced the mainspring as a replacement for weights in driving clocks.
Looking back over the last forty years, I can see how things have sped up and I can imagine how laid back events were over 500 hundred years...