All the Time was an episode that reminded us all of the importance of time. What we do with the time we have is crucial to what could happen in the future. In this episode, the protagonist Henry Bemis, is always deprived of the time to read. His wife or his boss always gets in the way. One day, he goes to this vault to finally read alone. He sits down, grabs the newspaper and reads about a bomb potentially hitting the city. Right at that moment, he felt the tremors from the explosion. As he exited the vault, he was the lone survivor. He had no idea what to do. On the brink of taking his own life, he found the public library, with it's books still in good condition. He gathered and organized all of the books he wanted to read but he glasses broke, leaving him unable to read all of those books.
If I were to make an update to the story, I would probably make Henry a workaholic Someone addicted to work. Why is this so? Because being a workaholic deprives you of so much quality time with loved ones. You get imprisoned in your own little world. So when Henry would realize that he was the only person left, he would be constantly looking for something to work on. But obviously, this would be impossible because there would be no one to work for, and no one to work with. This would lead to him first of all, regretting being a workaholic his whole life, which would cause him a deep depression, which would eventually lead to him committing suicide (which was the ending I actually wanted, to get the idea of "time is gold" really stuck in our heads).
Mayumi Katrina B. Rix
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