Donnie Darko

I have trouble getting up in the morning, standard for most people. I can set multiple alarms on my iPhone and none of them will even stir my sleep. I became frustrated that I couldn't find something to wake me, I tried several things around the house that I could set an alarm to wake me. Eventually I came to an old Quarts clock that has sat on a mantle piece for as long as I can remember. It also hasn't worked for all that time, but that wasn't due to the actual clock, but because of a missing back panel that held a single AAA battery into place. So I walk up my room to set it on my bed side table and as I do I tested if the clock works if I push the battery in. The battery looked as though it was dead and so I gave up on that idea pretty quickly and set my trusty iPhone alarm. The old Quartz clock stayed there for a couple of months because I I'm lazy and my room rarely gets cleaned. After all this time I was watching Donnie Darko on Netflix, a movie I've seen dozens of times. The story revolves around a boy who's mentally troubled and the theme of this story revolves around a 'countdown' to the end of something. Throughout we are lead to believe it's towards the 'end of the world' when you actually find out it's just for the continuance of his world which he can sadly no longer be a part of. I always sympathized with Donnie, for personal reasons which I won't bother getting into but I'm guessing you can infer. Which is why this was a very surreal experience for me, because at the EXACT moment where Donnie dies and the whole reason for what he has done in the plot becomes clear this old Quartz alarm clock that has sat next to my bed for months, and hasn't so much as twitched, set out the most ear piercing alarm I have ever heard. It really startled me, and took me a couple of moments to figure out where it was coming from after noticing I'd never heard it in the movie before. I went to look at the clock and it was exactly the same as it is right now, the two hands stuck at 3:23 and the hand for the alarm set to 8:00. Might not be significant for some, but it really is for me and I had to share it on the first thing I Googled for this sort of thing.