Importance Of Keeping Record Of Time

TMSA High School Writing Contest
Keeping track of time is a very important but common skill among people. Though it is common, it is not always easy to do, or the means to do it are unavailable. Over the years I have learned to keep track of time in three different ways, sight, my body, and various timekeeping devices. Two of my three ways are not as accurate, but in times where total accuracy is not as important they are very effective and efficient. Because I use sight the most and I value it the most I am going to begin with that. Sight is a very important way of keeping track of time because with my eyes then I can see how things change so then I can see how things progress gradually and I can observe them all. For example, I can watch the sun go up and down and then I know that one day has elapsed. The observations that I make through sight are the ways that I can see that time is moving forward and I can keep track of it. It is just not the sun that I can watch

Everyday I use different devices to keep them: the clock on my phones, tablet, microwave, laptop, televisions, cars, and the various walls and digital clocks that I see throughout my day. Time tracking in all its actual complexity has been made into a mundane everyday feat, due to the fact that around a couple hundred years prior, having the ability to keep track of time was something more reserved for scholars and scientist, now anyone can easily tell you the time if they have the proper equipment on hand. This makes me out to be a follower in the monotonous practice of using traditional devices to keep track of my time. But it is the best way so this also shows that I am not only intelligent enough to use an in today's turn