Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXII
You (or your character) happen upon a strange pocket watch. You pick it up, dust it off, and tap it a couple times. It's ticking normally. You pull the crown and everything around you freezes. You press it back into place and normalcy returns. Amazed, you wind it forward, then backward, and impossibly, the world speeds up, then rewinds. Time is now yours to control.
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The time is now
Time. The one thing everyone wants to speed up to get to where they want to be. Whether an hour in the future or a week or a month, And yet it's the one thing money cannot buy. When we run out, it's the only thing we wish we had. Would you honestly want to control it if you could? Knowing it all eventually ends, is what makes life so precious. Having control of this may make us use it carelessly, altering past events and ultimately changing our president lives. Would anyone really want that responsibilit?