Everyone woke up this morning thinking it was just any other day. Little did they know, their lives were about to take a mysterious turn. The sky glowed a deep blue, the wristwatches that the government gifted us, switched on with a strange symbol lit up in the center. What followed was an announcement from a mysterious voice echoing through the city; a voice that none of the citizens recall hearing before.
It was announced that the world was now under the rule of a cosmic clock. Everyone was instructed to sync the time on their wristwatch and the timing of the cosmic clock. Each wristwatch was given a different countdown assigned by the clock, mine was only 6 minutes and sixteen seconds.

From now, every single citizen is tied to an unknown cosmic clock and their lives depend on the ticking of its ever-present hands.
Should someone forget to reset the time on their wristwatch before the allocated time expires, they will be frozen in some kind of limbo where time holds no meaning. They would be unable to progress, move or grow until someone reset their cosmic watch.

The thought of been stranded in an eternal limbo involuntarily, unable to break free or take control of our destiny is chilling. Entire lifetimes could be spent in a single moment and there would be no hope whatsoever. The looming presence of the cosmic watch holding such an absolute power over the lives of every citizen, whose seconds, minutes and hours all rely on it, is a feeling of dread unparalleled.

I was terrified and had no idea what to do. No matter how hard I searched the day, I found no answers and no way out. What kind of puzzling universe had started?