I enjoyed it.
The fact that the countdown did not matter was intresting, it felt like an old law that has been abandoned for centuries and now it only exist in the mind of few who decide to folow and live by it. But if that the case then question appeared, why to limit yourself. Do people would gain wisdom or become more humble by doing so? Maybe listening to the world and quiet down yourself is the way of having a happy life, I have not heard mute people complaining by it, but it does not mean much.
But hey maybe there is something more in that story of, what was it pomegranate? Yea I thing it was all about that, I hope that we will live to hear it.