Time

It’s funny how you go through life, day by day but if feels like years are either moving too fast or to slow. As kids a day travels at snail speed especially during the school day listening to the teacher go on and on about the differences between pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs and the Spanish Revolution. Once school’s out you get the pleasure of going home to your crazy parents who make you do your homework, eat whatever burnt thing they’re trying to pass off as food, and then take a bath. Yuck! Baths are gross and there’s a new episode of The Simpsons on. You’re always wishing to be older so you can stay up as late as you want, watch what you want, eat what you want, and well hell, let’s face it do whatever you want whenever you want. Being an adult seems as glamorous as the prom or your wedding day. So you spend your days daydreaming for time to jump in the fast lane already, but instead each day and each year seems to take longer than the one before. Then from out of left field the batter hits a home run that wins the game and you were in the bathroom and now you’re in your thirties wondering where the time went. Spinning all around looking to get a replay. Let’s face it, that’s why we have kids, to feel like one again because we missed it the first time. Now we have an excuse to color, paint with our fingers, play on the monkey bars without looking like a child molester, and of course to be able to take afternoon naps. Face it as kids we don’t see the crappy part of being an adult, like instead of going to school now you have to work. Work isn’t usually something any of us enjoy, that’s why we look so forward to retiring. Finally you do retire and then you’re bored and don’t know what to do with yourself. There’s only so much Jerry Springer and the constant company of your significant other you can take before you start wanting to go back to work. Anything just to get your fat butt off the couch and away from the one you love, so that you’ll still love them tomorrow. To make things even more exciting as adults we get the privilege of paying for all that stuff you NEED like a house, food, a car, insurance, to rescue that cute crazy looking dog from the pound, and of course the new i-phone. No matter what age you are you’ll always want to be a different one, till finally one day you look around and realize you’re in the right place at the right time. So STOP and smell the roses! They smell GREAT! Time moves at the same pace no matter what age we are or what we dream of that could be better, yet it will always be too fast or too slow. There was this great saying, how  you should jump in and enjoy the exhilarating things in your life because you’ve never been this old and you’ll never be this young again.  Always wondering if the grass is really greener just gets us to miss the good things   we already have