Time - on time

Since my school days I had this habit of ensuring that I do not get to school late, by keeping my watch 5-10 mins ahead. Well, if you do/did something similar, you knew the logic of how this works. :) During the exams, I would move ALL the clocks in the house to 15 minutes ahead. As I grew, my habit grew and the duration grew too. Now, when I had to help my wife prepare our kid for school and then I had to get ready to office - the time differenece grew to half an hour! But typically this never worked - except for first couple of days of adopting a new (increased) duration. I would end up being late, or hurrying to wherever that I had to go.

Then an interesting thing happened.

My parents came to stay with us recently, and the first thing my dad did was to set our clock back to normal time. That day onwards I found myself never getting late to office! Not a single day in the past three weeks! What was going on here?!

I figured out the logic(!) for my perennial delays. I would get up and _always_ feel that there is still 30 minutes more to get ready, and this complacency would end up getting me late. Now when I knew that the time that is on the face of the clock IS the right time - WYSIWYG - I would plan appropriately and act quickly. It was real-time.

Time - on time.