wannagofishin
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2005
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- 159
I was reading some of the posts to JB on his post about his B'Day (BTW, Happy Birthday JB) and a lot were about the passage of time. You guys are correct, time is passing more quickly, and I can tell you why.<br /><br />Although time is the measure of distance through space, to us it is perseptual. "Time flies when you're having fun." is a perfect example. When I was a drinking man, it seemed like I'd just gotten to the bar when they started calling "last call" even though I'd been there since eight. Why? I was having fun. But, when somone told me they'd meet me at a certain time and were 10 minutes late, it seemed more like an hour. Why? I was waiting. When you're waiting for something or someone, it seems to take forever. That is why childhood takes so long. We are ALWAYS waiting. We wait for Christmas, and the last week seems like a year. We wait for our birthdays, for the parties. We can't wait to be in school like the big kids. Then we can't wait to be in the sixth grade to be the big kids. We can't wait to get to high school. We wait to be a teenager, then to be sixteen so we can drive, eighteen so we can "do what we want." Then we wait to be 21, to be a real adult, to be able to drink, legally!<br /><br />So, you see, in our youth, we are in a constant state of wait. But, as adults, what do we wait for? Besides payday, nothing. To be sure, there are short waits, such as waiting for the homeloan to be approved, the new boat to be ready for delivery, etc., but even then we don't take the waiting as seriously as children, so we fly through adulthood, wondering "where did the time go."<br /><br />Dan
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