Telling Time
I have bought a Seiko 5 Sports several weeks ago as a treat after getting my sales incentive last month. I have never worn a wrist watch for many years and has used my mobile phone for telling time.
I initially got interested about watches after meeting a sales manager and his agent to discuss getting a condo in Makati. I never fell for the sales talk since I am a sales manager myself but fell head over heals on the watch that this sales manager got. It was a big-faced watch with hard thick metal bracelet. this imposing piece of jewelry eventually lingered in me and drove me to covet.
The covetous feeling grew into lust and lust into obsession. For several months, I drooled at L Time studio and Chronos. I did my rounds at Landmark. Yet, I saw a few that matched my fancy.
One time, I went to Quiapo to get a pair of spectacles done and happened to pass through Isetann Recto. It was a grand shopping mall decades before. Now, it has lost its luster but is still habituated by the hoi polloi. It has a supermarket, several boutiques, and a multi-level department store. At one of its floors sits a watch shop.
This watch shop was the usual store girdled with glass counters in which watches flank. I curiously looked at the displays and to my surprise saw a watch that matched my taste. The shiny stainless steel caught my eyes, and the simple bars on its face was decent and cool.
I went home to Bulacan that weekend but got back the next day to purchase it. I do not usually indulge in buying expensive ornaments but I thought it was time to treat myself into buying this handsome watch for myself. Wearing it gave a sense of fulfilment. I wore it with thrill. I wore it with joyous triumph that after years of restraining myself to indulge and reward myself, I finally did.
I seldom look at the time using my watch and still have the habit of using my mobile phone to tell time. When will I stop it and begin to use my watch? Only time will tell.
