Break the clock
let time run through you
The best way to break the clock you think is ticking towards some predetermined end is to press your full attention up against the hand of every single second. Time never moves towards you more slowly than when you’re watching it. See: elevators, toasters, pots on the stove, orgasm. You think to yourself, “time is running out” but you never ask yourself, “out of what?” Let alone asking yourself how something with no legs can run at all.
There appears to be a limited amount of time when you think of it in terms of point A to B, beginning to end. Birth to death. Yet time is not a line. It is not even a circle. It has no measurable shape. It has no measurable depth, width, height, or length. (That last one is arguable, I know.)
Time is running through you. Imagine it as a naturally occuring, renewable resource. Like oxygen, in and out. Like oxygen, it can be limited by access and attention but not by organic availability. Like oxygen, it expands when you do. That’s how I’ll love you for eternity. With every breath, no matter how much time the clock says we have left.