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I now have five watches that all tell the correct time, but can still enjoy the pleasure of not knowing what time it is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I recently bought new watch batteries.<\/p>\n

As much as I’m sure you’re fascinated by my domestic errands — remind me to tell you about getting my jewelry repaired and going to the dry cleaner — that’s probably not especially interesting on its own.<\/p>\n

I am a type A girl who owns five watches. I’m a little obsessive about punctuality: it stresses me out to be late and offends me when others are late.<\/p>\n

So I took it as more than a coincidence when I got down to one watch with a working battery, and that watch died out of the blue on Easter Sunday in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

You could see that as running the car out of gas, letting one watch after another die without getting new batteries, then finally the last one falls. That’s fair.<\/p>\n

But I also took it as something bigger.<\/p>\n

On our two-month sabbatical in New Orleans this spring, I observed a culture with a different relationship with time.<\/strong> Instead of racing from one place to another shouting into a cellphone on the way, New Orleanians are more prone to amble, maybe chatting with someone they bump into along the way, and get there when they get there.<\/p>\n

I arrived in New Orleans with a lengthy to-do agenda, and promptly got laid out by a bug that left me as sick as I’ve been as an adult<\/a>. I spent my convalescence observing how it was recalibrating my pace of life, as I was simply too weak to do more than amble.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then a few weeks later, my watch died.<\/strong> Rather than buy a battery the next day, I took it as an opportunity. I stuffed my watch in my suitcase and lived without.<\/p>\n

I could still check the time on my cellphone or iPad. But I’m not one to pull my phone out repeatedly in a social situation, so without being able to discreetly glance at my wrist, I often just lost track of time.<\/p>\n

I decided to bring this watch-free lifestyle with me back to New York, and one especially lovely evening hanging out with a friend on a school night, I was shocked and pleased to discover it was 2 a.m.<\/strong> We’d been having such an enjoyable conversation that the hours flew by, without my watch tsk-tsking at me that I should get to bed.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take it lightly, this decision to buy new watch batteries. Several months passed before I decided I’d absorbed my more zen relationship with time, but that a lifestyle with meetings and obligations is easier with a watch.<\/p>\n

I recently had another of those mildly irresponsible school nights, staying out until 2 a.m. with girlfriends. This time my watch kept me fully aware of the choice I was making to rely on caffeine to make it through the next day — but I think my watch-free experience helped me realize time is a tool, not my boss, and in some moments, it’s worthwhile ignoring it.<\/p>\n


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