Time
There are a lot of sayings about time. If you think about them and what they are supposed to mean, time can fly, stand still, get away from you, catch up with you and most of all heal all wounds. Most of us spend our day under the pressure of time, having to be somewhere or do something at a certain time, We as a society have taught ourselves that time is precious and not to be wasted. We hear it from when we are small, “stop wasting time” or “we don’t have time for that”.
There are also points in life were we are in need to “take our time”. How many times have you heard the phrase “there will be plenty of time for that later” or “good things come to those that wait” only to find out that there isn’t ever enough time. My favorite saying would have to be “time is precious”, because it truly is. As I get older I find myself thinking about things that seem like they happened yesterday, when in fact it has been many years.
I think about the past a lot, this comes from “having too much time on my hands”. My kids are grown, all out of the house, two with families of their own, the youngest is in college. My parents are both gone now, my mother recently and my father some 4 years now. I think of them both a lot and of different times when I was growing up. The happy times, the sad times and the times where you never want it to change. Of my children, I can still see in my mind things they each did when they were small. One when she was 5 getting out of her bed at night and watching 3 Nightmare on Elm Street movies all night. One running through the halls of where we lived saying “nana nana batman”, she had to have been 3 at the time. The youngest, only 16 months old or so, chugging my tea from my cup at the coffee table, while I went into the kitchen. Now I look at them all grown women with lives of their own and think where “did the time go”.
Time can fly. It most certainly will catch up with you. It can sometimes heal wounds, even though it may not seem like it. You can not get it back if wasted. It will not stand still. It can and will get away from you and most of all there is “never” enough of it.
