Do you ever wish you could stop time, that ever-running, ever-stalking adversary in your life? Yet perhaps it is not an adversary, but a sage old friend, who teaches you many lessons.
In his short story “The Capture of Father Time,” L. Frank Baum shows Time as a necessity, rather than an adversary. For when Jim accidentally captures Father Time and freezes the world, Jim learns a valuable lesson. As time carries you from beginning to end, it also brings unpredictable people, places, and things into your life, reducing dreariness and the unpleasant.