Manda's M&M clocks

This is real life, sixty seconds of real life every minute, no one gets less. But you can take less. You live through a day, and at the end you think "I didn't do anything." But you did do things. You lived through every second, just as you live through every second of every day. Here's the thing, the crutial thing: your life is full. And if you don't realize that... then you're just like the rest of us, but that's no excuse.
- paraphrased from James Alan Gardner's Vigilant