Time is a slippery beast

[Frank from Cleveland]

With fewer years ahead (I have maybe 15 years left which I measure by thinking there's maybe 3 or 4 more Bond movies to see/ 3 or 4 more Star Trek movies/ 10 or 13 more Stephen King novels ( and that's depending on how long HE lives) I feel sad about the tricky nature of time.
While we live it -- especially the slowest parts like waiting in the dentist's office or being in the company of someone you can't stand at a family picnic---time can be quite slow like an air balloon just gliding along at a leisurely pace but then a few decades go by and it feels like time sizzles past us like a fighter jet. WHOOOOOOOSH !!!
And while we can try to slow it down by focusing on good moments as they happen its still a thing without form.
We can't embrace it.
We can't grab hold and wrestle it to the ground begging it to slow down.
We can't even bargain with it no matter how hard we try.
And i won't eat up any more of YOUR time having you read this comment.
It's just this thought with no ending was on my mind and I wanted to share it for whatever bit of good you might pull from it.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

When I was 18, getting to be age 77 seemed like a million years into the future. Now, that I am 77, being only 18 wasn't that long ago. What's weird is that for today's kids, most of my life is "history" to them. They read it in a book, while we lived it.

 

[jujube]

If you want to know the length of a year, ask a 15-year-old boy who's waiting to get his driver's license at 16.

If you want to know the length of a month, ask a student waiting for summer vacation.

If you want to know the length of a week, ask a senior citizen who has to make a little money last until their next social security check.

If you want to know the length of a day, ask a child waiting for their Christmas...tomorrow.

If you want to know the length of an hour, ask a woman who's been in labor for 18 of them.

If you want to know the length of a minute, ask a traveler who has just seen the door close to the airplane bridge and has missed his flight.

If you want to know the length of a second, ask the runner who just came in second at the Olympics.

 

[Alligatorob]

Time is a slippery beast

Yes it is, thanks for the post!

 

[Gaer]

Absolute time on Earth does not exist.
Relative time on Earth is man-made.
Therefore it is fallible, distorted,
subject to your moods and awareness.
It's only a tool for the accomplishment of
change in creation, maintenance and
dissolution. Time can be slowed or stopped
because it's an illusion.

 

[hollydolly]

If you want to know the length of a year, ask a 15-year-old boy who's waiting to get his driver's license at 16.

If you want to know the length of a month, ask a student waiting for summer vacation.

If you want to know the length of a week, ask a senior citizen who has to make a little money last until their next social security check.

If you want to know the length of a day, ask a child waiting for their Christmas...tomorrow.

If you want to know the length of an hour, ask a woman who's been in labor for 18 of them.

If you want to know the length of a minute, ask a traveler who has just seen the door close to the airplane bridge and has missed his flight.

If you want to know the length of a second, ask the runner who just came in second at the Olympics.

Wow!! ain't that the truth ?

 

[Timewise 60+]

Time is the one thing we cannot help but lose it, until it is all gone!

So, enjoy the ride!