My Gilded Cage

Time. A moment in time can be seconds, but seconds feel like minutes and minutes like hours. We perceive time through the measure of our activity, of how busy we are. Even so, an hour will always have sixty minutes and each minute will always have sixty seconds, regardless of our perception.
So here I am. Even though I logically knew that time passed in the same manner as always, my mind perceived it differently. Time stopped for me. Every action felt exaggerated, even my breathing seemed forced.
Blinking a few times to clear my vision, I finally admitted to the one truth I’d been blind to for most of my life.
I was born for one purpose: To be a pawn in this never ending war.