Are We There Yet?
One of my neighbors has elaborate holiday decorations– lights, blow ups, etc. His display for Halloween was epic. Today it’s all about Christmas, skipping right over Thanksgiving. I’m not quite ready for December.
This week I started putting things on my calendar for 2026, and then I wonder why time seems to fly by so quickly. I remember longing to graduate from high school. Later it was anxiously anticipating finishing undergrad and then law school. I remember when time seemed to drag – the school year never seemed to end. It seemed “like forever” until I would be an adult – a status I seem to have achieved in age only.
When the kids were little, I couldn’t wait until they said their first words and took their first steps. Now they are parents of teenagers. There was a tendency to “wish my time away.”
Time is like a runaway train speeding every faster. Sometimes I think that if I didn’t have so many things on the calendar things would slow down. But then I am not sure I want to trade away the anticipation and excitement about things to come - I love making plans and cannot imagine not having things to look forward to. So perhaps now is a good time to utilize the skill of being “in the moment.”
Do you think that might slow things down a bit?
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Not a chance. The older we…
Not a chance. The older we get, the quicker time seems to pass by. Enjoy the moment and keep planning for the future
Will do! It's the only way…
Will do! It's the only way forward.
Someone said the passage of…
Someone said the passage of years 5 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 40 and 40 to 80 seem the same, relatively...
Someone was not paying…
Someone was not paying attention. LOL
When my twins were in middle…
When my twins were in middle school, I told them that time would appear to accelerate as they got older. A few years later, when they were in college, they said that they'd begun to notice that phenomenon. Most interesting to me about this -- beyond the obvious perception -- was that they'd heard, absorbed, and remembered what I'd mentioned. Kids soak in more than we might think.
The soak up everything - and…
They soak up everything - and they watch our feet as much or more than they watch our lips.
Shelly - You had highlighted…
Shelly - You had highlighted that your neighbor was skipping right over Thanksgiving. Just this morning there was a story on the news that families living on an Air Force base in Florida started putting up Christmas decorations, the base told them to take them down on the thought that they didnt want Thanksgiving to be overlooked.
I guess that's "life on a…
I guess that's "life on a military base." Interesting that my blog coincided with that story .
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