Time

Wow. So the first trimester of school is already over. Thanksgiving is tomorrow. It is almost December. I have had contacts for almost a year. I have been living here for over 6 years. There are so many things that have happened so long ago that seem to have just happened. Where did the time go?

Life tends to go by so fast. Each day, each week, each month, each year hold so much, yet they disappear in the blink of an eye. I wrote a poem last year that goes along with this:

One Hour Is...

1/24 of a Day

1/168 of a Week

1/720 of a Month

1/8760 of a Year

1/150,072 of my Life thus far.

It is a fleeting moment in time;

Gone in the blink of an eye.

Yet a single hour at a time

Can hold the most important events in our lives.

I feel like I'm being forced to grow up too fast. Life is rushing at me faster than I can prepare myself for it. I need to start thinking about what I want to do, but I still feel like I have so much growing up to do before I am ready to set out into the real world. I miss the carefree days of my childhood when I didn't have to worry about anything worse than a scraped knee or some spelling tests or math problems. Everyone around me seems so eager to grow up and head out, but I just wish time would slow down. I feel like I'm missing a big part of life. Time is going by too fast for me to truly enjoy it and feel like I'm doing something. It seems like I haven't done anything productive with my time because it seems as if I haven't really had much time to do things in because it has gone by so fast. Our world moves too fast and makes people grow up by making it seem like such a great thing that they end up wasting their only childhood waiting and wanting to be older. People are wasting their childhood years that they will never have again. You are only ever a child once. Take advantage of the time you have with it, and keep the heart of a child when you are grown.