i am aging.
briskly.
as if my pouchy eyes, and birth certificate aren’t evidence enough of my aging, there’s this: i no longer have any concept of time.
everything was a few days, weeks, months or years ago.
on the surface, that sounds pretty good. no worries, mate!
except for the context. i refer to something that happened in february as a few days ago. my pre Christmas shopping spree was a few weeks ago. a conversation with graeme at fintry in august was a few months ago. and the last time i had call waiting was august 1991, a few years ago.
is it that the years are just smushing together? that as my good friend knobody says, the days are slow but the years rush by? is my life so mundane that all the days are so grey (like my knickers?:) that i can’t keep track of them individually? oh, if that is the case, please, let me be aging. anything but a boring life.
acceleration of time would have been good during say the teenage years or my twenties. why are things speeding along NOW, the best time of my life? where’s the justice there?
i’m taking my baggy eyes off to bed. i may soon (aka: in a few months) be declared mentally incompetent, but at least my eyes will look good when i go.
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4 Replies to “let’s do the time warp…again?”
Tess I turned 40 this year. And that seems impossible. I have no idea where my 30’s went or what happened during them. I look in the mirror and have no idea who it is looking back at me or where those crows feet came from. You are not alone!
I think the moment our babies are born – time takes off at break-neck speed and never looks back.
If you really want to slow the minutes down then do the following:
Drink a gallon of water over a 20 minute period. take a trip in the slowest elevator in Hong Kong.
At some point the minutes will really slow down.
Love to all….Dad
Tess, I can totally relate to this blog, as well Luann sums it up nicely. I also do not know where the 30’s went, let alone the 20’s. I am in the middle of spring cleaning while off sick and am discovering things that I have been hauling around for years, but when finding them it feels like only yesterday that I (bought, was given, kept etc). where does the time go?
Love to you all ..
Auntie Pammie xoxo