by Dafne Cholet via Flickr Creative Commons

A page a day calendar hangs on the wall.

A woman is working hard, but facing away from it.

As the sun rises and sets, someone comes along behind her, tearing off a new page to reveal the next day’s date.

The woman doesn’t notice them.

Eventually, the woman looks up.

She is startled at the passage of days.

She thought she had only been working a few hours.