Look at your life, look at your choices.

why doesn’t the change from pm to am start at 1? why is 12 the top of the clock?

wouldn’t it make so much more sense to go:
1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12am
1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12pm?