Oh, time

I feel that clocks have allowed humans to feel a certain distance from the natural flow of time which is congruent with modern society and the systems we have built up and away from nature. This disconnection is going against our most basic selves, and thought we gain efficiency, we lose something vital that in time we may not even remember to miss. I miss it, and feel the loss whenever I pass a day wholly without thinking about the natural cycles or feeling connected to time in any way other than the numbers on a clock. They are abstract and much to rational.
Although the clock does govern my sense of time a lot of the time, as schedules are vital for functioning in today's society, I love to remember other ways I experience time in a day. For instance, I look at the sun and can gague what time it is. I know the seasons represent different times of the year, and am appreciative of their subtle and growing signs. I look at myself and see myself changing and growing, that is another way I perceive time and its passage. I also experience time internally, through my level of tiredness or hunger as these things are periodic and cycling like time.
When I think of these ways of measuring time, I feel so much freer and lighter than when I think of a clock (constraining to my soul!!) I think that time is indeed a part of one's sense of identity, as the way we perceive the world around us is inextricably a part of how we view ourselves. Time is one way we understand the world, a very vital one, and is most true and real I feel when it is connected with nature, its basis and our own, and the continual proof of time's existence.