The Pendulum clock - Part 1/2

  We have a new member at our house, an antique Pendulum clock-- if you can bracket fifty years under the term 'antique'. The clock is sturdy, and the clock led me to the history of pendulum clocks, and on how even moving a pendulum clock to a higher floor is bound to influence its accuracy. 

  Gifted by a very dear friend of my father, it is absolutely useless in terms of meeting the purpose of a clock, keeping accurate time; it goes slow by five minutes every eight and half hour. The lag-factor is accurate; calculated after intricate notes and calculation during the long sleepless hours I spent in my bed in the last two flu-struck days.

    Despite its flaws and the lack of purpose like most of us, what it does best is that it keeps chiming regularly, very  much like us. We do the same thing over and over without knowing why we are doing it or what we are supposed to  accomplish from whatever we are doing without knowing why we are doing it.

 There is a whole lot of difference between gaining three years of experience and having three years of one year experience - the latter is the type of experience we gain when we do the thing that we did in the first year for three years, and often is the type of experience most of us manage to gain - Just like the purposeless pendulum that chimes without proper rhythm.
  
 But the dear friend of my father came home to tell us the secret - The secret of the pendulum clock.

 --To be continued

A bit of history : If someone sells you a four hundred year old pendulum clock, beware, he surely thinks you are a fool. There is no four hundred year old pendulum clock; the oldest one would only be around 350 years old.