we can't stop our hearts from beating, our lungs from breathing, so why try and stop our minds from thinking? they can destroy us once they're overclocked and overloaded, over-simplifying complicated situations. we still try to forget ourselves, and how they're always there, but it's inevitable, atomic, how time moves us, but we cannot move time, only by falsifying hands tracking secondary measurements, little ticks that eventually drive us mad. not with anger, but with sadness, time slips, and we slip with it back to innocence, perseverance ensues, and we soon see how time changes without our hands in the clock.
you can take your hands off the gears now, and keep the time set where it was, and before you know it, that too shall pass.