And forever more, I’ll be on your side for sure –
A light in your life, that always burns for you
As time passes…. so quickly.
–Paul Weller/Time Passes
It’s the beginning of March. I am looking at my calendar.
I’m getting my hair done next week. And a tattoo. Wow the month will be practically half over by then. I wonder if my ink will be done by April?
Then we’re going to the symphony and ballet in April. Then it’s time for the Spring game. It’ll be almost Summer, and then I have to put the Gummi bears on for Football. Then it’s practically my birthday and Xmas and the year will be over already!
I’m practically about to turn 60, and then I’ll be retired. In another minute I’ll be 80.
This is how time goes. It doesn’t fly, it doesn’t turn like the calendar pages you see in movies–it’s warp speed, and it gets faster all the time. Sometimes I think I like to do nothing not so much out of laziness, but in an attempt to let a touch of boredom slow down time just a little.
But the older I get, the less likely I am to get bored. There are so many things to look at and read and learn and try. How can you be bored? And the more things you do and enjoy, the more you want to try. The more things you try, the more you will enjoy. If you have a lot of things you enjoy, you love your life more and more, which speeds it up even more. It’s a conspiracy of happiness to make your life speed by so quickly that you barely have time to notice it.
But do.
Notice everything.
Notice that even though the ice killed the leaves on your Daphne, it’s still going to bloom. Notice how pretty the curled up red leaves are agains the blue sky when you get in your car at the end of the day and look up and smile. Notice when people smile at you when they think you aren’t looking. Notice each moment. Be there for it.
Make each moment it’s own infinity.
Each moment of now is all you have.