Time goes so quickly. Dunno. It just seems like every day is already the next day; I wake up, and the day is over, just like that. I suppose this is fantastic in a way. The clockwork of life are working smoothly.
Yet, in a way, it is terrifying. Things that seemed to be happening "a short while ago" sleep months back in the past. Today, like all those other days, will vanish; and it seems like the pace of this "vanishing" is only increasing.
:/
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Is marching on.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
It's rolling like a river, to the sea.
(What's the scary aspect?)
Posted by 777 (Member # 9506) on :
It runs like a river, It runs like the sea, It runs like a river runs to the sea. Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
Time - Pink Floyd
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
is a face on the water.
Posted by 777 (Member # 9506) on :
On a more serious note, I understand exactly what you're talking about. A literally remember experiences from months ago as if they happened just yesterday. It motivates me to get my life together, since I now realize that I have only a hundred years--or less--before I kick the bucket.
The years are going by really fast. I can't believe I've already had eighteen of them.
And yes, this rate of time does increase. Infinitely so. I'll be racing to my grave.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
It saddens me.
I am also 18, and I feel like my Senior year just started and already people are preparing for the end of the year. A lot of my friends have been accepted to college and I am waiting for the acceptance letter, having been already notified online...
I feel like I need to start hurrying up and getting stuff done.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
The scary part?
Well, I'm gonna be dead soon. I'm gonna get myself into some horrid routine, meaningless life. I'm gonna not live a fulfiling life. My entire life is going to flash by.
Hyperbole, a little .
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
is of the essence.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
I had a discussion sort of like this with my father back around Christmas. When I was a kid, time seemed to stretch on and on. The school week was so long, summer vacation was so long, the years just stretched out. Now I'm in college (only a few more months then I'm out), and it just seems like everything goes by in a blur. I really don't feel like I've been going to school 5 weeks already; it feels more like 2 weeks at most. It seems like I wake up on Monday and it's time for school then in the blink of an eye it's Friday, school's over for the week, and I'm off working on my other projects. It often feels like there's just never enough time to do everything I want to do. I guess that's just how it is though.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Dood. Do not scare me like that, seriously.
Also, it sucks that there's just a sliver of time between coming home from work and bed. It seems ashame to have to spend that little bit of time CLEANING! I hate cleaning! I just want to chill out and relax. Literally, because it's really cold in here, but no, I got to clean. Sucks. It doesn't even look any better either, which is the worse.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Sounds pretty scary.
Time will wait for no one To get the day's work done We're in this boat together You know, one and one and one ain't one And there's no future in the past Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Maybe once there are more experiences to compare things to, it doesn't seem as brand new. Maybe it just doesn't leave as great a mark in our memories and so the time seems to move faster. Seems to move faster because our brains have a 'place' for the memories - but actually moves at the same pace?
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
I think I have been trying to overcome that feeling by doing lots of stuff...
I became a volunteer firefighter, have competed in two science tournaments, I am debating, and joined the ARNG...
I think I am scrambling.
AaaaahhH!!!!
Posted by charles_martel (Member # 10172) on :
Hehe, scrambling to get things done before you die....at 18.
All joking aside, I understand that too (I'm 17). It's like what Phanto said:
"Well, I'm gonna be dead soon. I'm gonna get myself into some horrid routine, meaningless life. I'm gonna not live a fulfiling life. My entire life is going to flash by."
Except for me it doesn't feel like hyperbole: I look around at adults I know and wonder if they're happy with their routine boring lives, or if they ever feel any urge to do anything great. One of my greatest fears is that I'll be like that, and that I'm just wasting time now, treading water, posting on forums like this and Ornery American.
(I'll probably still post, though.)
It seems to me that all people have this desire, whether they think about it or not; and also that when we're young, we expect more, and so we feel it more clearly. (That may not be true, as I have obviously never been any older than my current age.)
Martel the Hammer
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
is the essence of being . . .
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
Posted by Ginol_Enam (Member # 7070) on :
is on my side. Yes, it is.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Time is an allusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Time is.
Time is an opera in a language one doesn't understand. You can hear the beauty, you can make educated guesses about what's going on, but try as you might, you'll never understand it. Also, you'll fall asleep in the third act, only to awaken to the gentleman behind you prodding you in the back of your head with a rather sharp pencil. Won't do that again, will you?
To a child, time is a dictator. To an adolesent, time is an excuse. To a young adult, time is a forgotten friend.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
what happens after young adult? Does time stop?
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
No. opposite.
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
...is a news and current affairs magazine.
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
quote: is a face on the water.
I luuuv that quote! Gunslinger all the way!
"...is on my side. Yes, it is!"
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Ti-i-i-ime is on my side...
Tempus fugit.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme...
-- Nine Inch Nails
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote:Originally posted by Strider: what happens after young adult? Does time stop?
I haven't really experienced it to be sure. I'm pretty sure time then becomes an enemy, and then old friend, but what do I know? Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
Ha, 18.
Wait till you get a regular job, when you don't have a change in schedule every semester or year, where you don't get a few weeks off at Christmas, a few months over the summer. Even if you work when your not it school it is a change of pace, something you can use to mark the passing of time.
In the work force as soon as you finish working on one project you start the next, not next week, not tomorrow, as soon as you finish it, and you'll have many, many projects going on at the same time. I am not saying this to make work sound bad, I am just saying all of it makes time go by really fast.
It all blends together. You start realizing songs you think of as new are 5 years old. Young people you work with remind you movies you love, like Shawshank, came out while they were in fifth grade.
I am only 34 but I am starting to catch a glimpse of how fast the next 34 will go by.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It's astounding, time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely, not for very much longer I've got to keep control Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
If your life has no purpose, I guess that's true no matter how long it lasts.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
quote:Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
-HDT, Walden Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
Time is fickle, as the sky in winter And two hearts are always better than one Love has the wings of a tireless angel She'll stay beside you 'til the day is done
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