I like your personification of the minutes in time and your metaphor of running toward the cliff is wishing it away.
I can empathize (and commiserate) with your pain over the relativity of time when reading this. It brings to my mind the thrill seekers in life who believe life is not lived unless lived fully and passionately, walking balanced on the edge between life and death.

Very thought provoking if one takes a few minutes to “hear” what you are saying. Very nicely done!

Nice little peice, but it’s definitely the line “Why run toward the cliff?” which redeems the entire metaphor.

Thank you both for the kind comments. Can you tell I’m at the office, just begging for the day to end soon?

Ah, the life of the office drone. Nicely told and a fun philosophical debate for such a mundane experience of life.

The ‘they’ in the second sentence seemed vague to me. Do you mean the minutes? The clock? Coworkers?

@THX – “They” is referring to the minutes, personified.