The downside of timekeeping

Back again after a short hiatus. I do hope I'll have more material to write about. Short things, maybe...since it looks like I'm too lazy to write long stuff. But we'll see.

Today I can across this image that a friend shared on Facebook. (thanks Casper) I really like it and wanted to save it for future "reference", so why not share it here? And just in case the photo gets deleted in the future, here's a transcript.

Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.

You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie.
Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.
Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out.

That is definitely food for thought. But for all its drawbacks, timekeeping brings us a lot more advantages. Without it, imagine the difficulty we would have in communicating with each other!