Once there was a handsome clock that became
preoccupied with worry about its future. It began
thinking about the number of times it would have to
tick: twice each second, 120 times per minute, 7,200
times an hour, 172,800 times a day, 63,072,000 times a
year. When it realized that in the next ten years it
would have to tick 630,720,000 times, it had a nervous
breakdown. The clock went to a watchmaker for therapy.
While under the watchmaker’s care, the clock began to
realize that all it needed to do was to tick just one
tick at a time. Soon it began to tick again, and it
continued ticking, one tick at a time for one hundred
years. And everyone loved that old grandfather clock.



