I am sorry for the reupload, I took the good advice offered me and got rid of the distracting border and have sent it on to
the_challenge to see what I can learn from them. Go check it out and take a look at the entries, there are some really good ones there. Thank you creativefire for mentioning it. I had looked at that contest awhile ago, but I had forgotten the topic is time.

I suddenly realized where Slavador Dali received his inspiration and why.

Now, as to my motivation -

Time slips away from me so quickly and it is so precious due to my lack of it. This is what I am sure that time - if it were pictured in my life - would look like. Dissolving into melted shapes and distorted images, some remembered, some half-remembered, some forgotten, some beaten up, some abused, some painted over so that they may be hidden, some reflected and refracted into the lives of others, some dark spots, some not relevant and most of it beautiful - colored in the golds of memories and the warmth of sunny days. When I saw this reflection, I just knew that I had to take this photograph to express my love/hate relationship with the word time and my search for meaning behind it. Also it fascinates me to think about how old this watch is, and how the owner carried this watch daily and it was such a huge part of his life, keeping him on time for the thousands of things that fill up the days and weeks and months and years. And yet this beautiful companion passed the time of his death once a year without a whisper. This helps me to remember to make the most of each day that is given to me, as I hope it reminds you.

Cheers.
Loretta