Do you think "Where did the time go?"

[asp3]

This was inspired by hearlady's answer to the "What will be your last thought?" thread.

Personally I'm fairly happy with how I've spent my life. I feel like I've been fortunate and privileged enough to have had lots of amazing opportunities and I've taken advantage of many of them. It isn't that I don't have any regrets about wasted time but I figure that it was important enough to me at the time to not be motivated to do anything different.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

When my mind goes back to certain events that seemed like only a few years ago, then I realize, no, it was 30 years ago, it scares me how fast the remaining few will go.

A friend of mine called me the other night and asked if I could find in my journal when it was that the 3 of us (me, him, and his wife) went together to the Dallas Arboretum. He said he thought it was about 5 years ago. He was looking for pictures and said he filed them by date and couldn't find them. I did find it in my journal. The 3 of us were at the Arboretum in 2014.

 

[Sunkist]

When my mind goes back to certain events that seemed like only a few years ago, then I realize, no, it was 30 years ago, it scares me how fast the remaining few will go.

A friend of mine called me the other night and asked if I could find in my journal when it was that the 3 of us (me, him, and his wife) went together to the Dallas Arboretum. He said he thought it was about 5 years ago. He was looking for pictures and said he filed them by date and couldn't find them. I did find it in my journal. The 3 of us were at the Arboretum in 2014.

Those aspects of fast-time creep me out, too.

 

[hollydolly]

Yes absolutely time is just on speed dial. I cannot believe how fast it's going....

Just as an example to many of the folks on here who remember it.... do you realise its now 5 years since my X left... ?... Incredible..seems like last year

 

[asp3]

I'd definitely agree that it seems like things happened more recently than they actually did for me as well. However my thoughts after discovering that don't go to where did the time go. I just realize that my internal calendar isn't that reliable.

 

[MarciKS]

I know where the time went. Just waiting for it to be over.

 

[Rakaia]

I don't know where it went but I have a few clues on how it went.
Time,

It flew​

It got spent​

It got spent​

It got given​

It got marked​

It got wasted​

It never stood still despite the fact that occasionally some people thought it did.​

 

[Nathan]

Pretty bizarre, today I saw my EX at grand-daughter's 1st birthday party. We first met 55 years ago, been divorced 35 years ago.

 

[Jeni]

it really hit me last year when son turned 40 i do not remember that much time past... kids and grandkids seem to be things taht remind me of how i am aging even though I feel much the same as I did 20 years ago

 

[C50]

I almost never think that way, that time has flown by. For some reason I have trouble grasping time, I know something happened in the past but usually have trouble remembering if it was five, ten, twenty years ago or longer. If I have something relevant to associate an event with, like I was in school, or at a certain job, then I can relate to how long ago it was.

I've never understood this about myself, why I can't measure the past like others, I mean I do think of the past, but it's just a block of my life.

 

[Sunkist]

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[hollydolly]

in 4 weeks time.. my Daughter will be 50 years old.... how did that happen ?.....seriously... it's like she was born 20 years ago not 50...

 

[oscash]

I got an invitation to my granddaughter's 30th birthday party. I don't know how the years have gone by so quickly. I can
remember when my son rang to say she was well on the way and get to the hospital quickly. We arrived about 1/2 hour later.
I held her in my arms and looked at this beautiful miracle and wondered what life has in store for her. She is my pride and joy.

 

[Pepper]

Time keeps on slipping slipping slipping into the future

 

[smiley]

Is time just something we have invented to organize our busy lives and really doesn't matter - our biological "clocks" are what sets the pace and the end? but looking back at my life now at 83yrs I'm sorry I wasted some "time" and didn't use it more wisely ; more caringly and more for my families - I wait wait wait at heavens doors ready to apologize and make up for the time wasted!