19 October 2022…..down my rabbit hole a back out.

I have been down a rabbit hole of sorts recently. 

I have been fascinated with watches. All sorts. 

Swatch

Timex 

Casio

Sieko

Rolex

there are hundreds of watch brands. 

Now days Swiss watches are given the gold star as the best. But before world war 2 the US was best. Then the war caused companies to start making everything for the war effort, and watches became secondary. The Swiss kept making watches, and after the war were pretty good and by good I mean amazing. 

Then a few decades later quartz watches almost killed the entire mechanical watch industry. So slowly, mechanical watches evolved into a luxury. A marvel of art and craft and engineering. 

So here we are at the present. I have a much more accurate clock on my phone than any watch. Still I find myself wanting a watch. 

So maybe I need to make a watch. I discovered you can buy watch making kits. I don’t have the physical ability to build a watch. Plus the kit is $250 more or less. 

Buying a watch is anything from $10 to $500,000+. But at many instances you get what you pay for. 

Then I was watching a guy talking about watches on YouTube. One of his points that really jumped out at me, 

“Nobody cares about your watch.”

This statement made me wake up to the reality of the situation. If I want a watch, nobody cares if it is $60, $600, 6000, or $60,000. It’s just a watch. Maybe 1% of the population uses one. 

I was talking with my son, and he said, “I have a clock on my phone, most people do.” 

I really needed these little wake up calls. 

I still think there are lots of very fun watches out there, but for the time being I can handle buying a watch at Walmart, or Target, or some other brand that costs less than $100. 

I will save my pennies and maybe someday I will justify buying myself or my wife a watch that costs a lot more. But I want to get used to having money to throw around like bullshit and help the flowers grow. 

Now to a much more serious topic for a few moments. My mom is getting older. I already know I can’t do much. But I can ask for your prayers for her and for me and my siblings as we navigate things with her, we need all the wisdom we can get. All I can say is my mom has been selfless to her children until things are not the easiest for her. We need wisdom, my siblings and I and mom.

I hate putting this out there for the whole world to know, more than anything we need faith and wisdom. So all I ask is for your prayers.