Waking up, I sometimes have the weirdest of thoughts. Today, I was thinking about the awkward situation my parents must be in. They've had two babies and now we're both officially adults. Those little kids went from fragile babies to fully grown people in an instant!
I remember that time felt a lot slower when I was little and somebody once told me that time will seem to go by faster each year. So by the time I'm at my parents' age, a year won't feel like a lot anymore. I remember that I used to think that a year is an almost endless period of time. Lately, it feels like the year has barely begun and then it's already halfway over! A day that used to have a lot of room for all kinds of activities feels like a very limited bundle of hours now. Thinking about this from my parents' perspective, my brother and I must have grown up ridiculously fast. One moment, we've been tiny little creatures that didn't really know what they were doing, and then the next moment we've gone to school and graduated. And while we were away each day for several hours, we've grown up just a little more every day, unnoticed.
As a child, time felt like an infinite resource to me. I just did what came to my mind when I was home from school and helped my parents here and there. Later, I started thinking about time as a precious treasure and thought about what would be best done with my time. I've spent so many hours thinking about what I might want to do that I often went to bed, having done nothing that day at all. While it might be a good thing to collect ideas and decide what to do, it clearly is not helpful to spend all the time available on finding the very best thing to do right now. I've learned that the hard way, yet I still catch myself doing exactly that over and over again.
Actually, while I'm writing this, I'm thinking about what I might do with the rest of my day. Yet, I'm doing something while thinking which isn't completely useless, so this is not time wasted, right?
This is such an accurate post and it has been written by such a perspicacious person on the subject of time. I completely agree that I feel as an adult, the years go by so much quicker than they did when I was a child. My parents often tell me too that it seems like I was born just recently and that time has rushed by as well.
ReplyDeleteIt’s an interesting point you raise about time expenditure and maximising efficiency. I like to write poetry and one person from a poetry club I attended asked me if we were wasting our time writing poetry because she thought nobody was going to read her material. I told her we weren’t wasting our time because we are developing our creativity, enhancing our vocabulary, meeting nice people like her and doing something which makes us happy. These are all things which have certainly helped me in everyday life too. She may also even get her poetry published and this is not out of the question either.
Thank you so much for presenting this wonderful and very true post.