Pietro Maximoff (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
semihero_pietro) wrote2007-03-21 10:29 am
semihero_pietro) wrote2007-03-21 10:29 am
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Time
There is a digital clock with a bomb strapped to it. The clock is counting down from 5. People are screaming, unable to move, knowing that as it counts down, their lives are coming to an end. And they don't want that to happen. It's not their "time".
5
People don't understand that we are only given a certain amount of time on this world. How your time will end all depends upon the individual and the circumstances, but the one sure thing is that time will end.
4
There are people who steal time. They feel they have the power to control the lives of others, choosing when their "time" is up... their "time" to face their consequences...
There are people who foolishly give up their time. They want to choose how and when they will end their time here, and from that, go out in the blaze of glory. And some want to see who else will come along.
3
There are people who gain time. Changing habits, making their lives better. Adding minutes, hours, days, years to their lives from doing simple things to make their bodies work better. It's not a miracle though. It's just self preservation.
2
Sometimes people complain about time moving so fast, that they don't know where it went. But it's not that time sped up. It's that when you stop paying attention to the clock, when you focus on the things that matter...
You'll find out that time, in itself, is just a number on a clock. It doesn't matter how long is invested... just how it's spent.
1
*******
Pietro smiled as he played with the bomb in the back of the Avengers twinjet. Wanda rolled her eyes, ignoring the smug look on her twin's face.
"Could you have cut your timing any closer, Quicksilver?" Hawkeye asked from the seat in front of her. "I mean, you're supposed to be the fastest man alive. You didn't have to let the clock go down to one before you actually cut the wires."
"No, I didn't," Pietro stated, putting the bomb on his lap. "But maybe doing such will let those people become just a bit more aware of how precious time can be."
5
People don't understand that we are only given a certain amount of time on this world. How your time will end all depends upon the individual and the circumstances, but the one sure thing is that time will end.
4
There are people who steal time. They feel they have the power to control the lives of others, choosing when their "time" is up... their "time" to face their consequences...
There are people who foolishly give up their time. They want to choose how and when they will end their time here, and from that, go out in the blaze of glory. And some want to see who else will come along.
3
There are people who gain time. Changing habits, making their lives better. Adding minutes, hours, days, years to their lives from doing simple things to make their bodies work better. It's not a miracle though. It's just self preservation.
2
Sometimes people complain about time moving so fast, that they don't know where it went. But it's not that time sped up. It's that when you stop paying attention to the clock, when you focus on the things that matter...
You'll find out that time, in itself, is just a number on a clock. It doesn't matter how long is invested... just how it's spent.
1
*******
Pietro smiled as he played with the bomb in the back of the Avengers twinjet. Wanda rolled her eyes, ignoring the smug look on her twin's face.
"Could you have cut your timing any closer, Quicksilver?" Hawkeye asked from the seat in front of her. "I mean, you're supposed to be the fastest man alive. You didn't have to let the clock go down to one before you actually cut the wires."
"No, I didn't," Pietro stated, putting the bomb on his lap. "But maybe doing such will let those people become just a bit more aware of how precious time can be."