It's about time

The wristwatch, the alarm clock and the sundial were discussing which of them understood time best. They lay under an apple tree where they were taking a break from a lecture on pocket-philosophy.

“Before dawn of time, there was no time,” said the wristwatch. “It’s merely a phrase, an analogy, never being quite accurate and therefore impossible to relate real and scientific to. Basically indisputable as well,” he added smiling.

“Before no time existed, there was time,” said the alarm clock. “And before that no time existed, apart from the periods with time.”

“Well,” continued the sundial, “when a period of time is ripe, as an apple falling to the ground, the future lies latent within its seeds. To the seeds the idea of time makes no sense before the right conditions are obtained, enabling them to grow roots and sprout. They awake little by little, and after some time they turn into apple trees having their own time and their own apples. In that time of course time exists.”

“I believe,” said the wristwatch, “that while no time existed, the new times were there latent with a causal past influencing the fruits of the future, as time gets ripe. In a figurative manner of speaking you could call them, the fruits of Karma.”

“And in this way everything continues,” the alarm clock added, “without a beginning or an end. I think some of the apples may have philosophized and coming to the conclusion that they originated from seeds, but then they got stuck. They theorized a lot, for instance about various construction types of cores, coming from strange areas with no time.”

“They are way too imaginative,” thought the apple tree, “although it’s still not forbidden fruit to wonder, think or guess.”