Reflections Along The Way to Fifty Two

Funny how the years have ambled along life's path.   One tends to forget it is all a matter of perception.  Back when I was is grammar school - that's what elementary school was called in those days - the subject of the year 2000 was often discussed, as I recall.  We all thought it was light years away.  More than one of the gang used to say " I'll be 42 when the next century comes around."  Now I'm about to turn 52 and it seems like the last ten years took about 37 minutes on my clock.

Time can play tricks on you.  But where you are in life plays a big part in your perception of time.  A child's perception a time is vastly different than an  adult's.  Anyone who has been a parent can relate.    As adults most of us are controlled by time to some degree.  We have to be at work at a certain time, be at this activity at a certain time, be at this place, and on and on.

Jimmy Buffett has a song he wrote about Hurricane Katrina, called Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On.  the song starts out with these lines;
I bought a cheap watch from the crazy man
Floating down Canal
It doesn't use numbers or moving hands
It always just says now
Now you may be thinking that I was had
But this watch is never wrong
And if I have trouble the warranty said
Beathre in breathe out move on.

Maybe the man wasn't so crazy after all he did seem to me to have a pretty good handle on time.  Another interesting look at time is the classic Twilight Zone Episode " Time Enough at Last" take a look if you don't remember it.

Make the most of time and try not become a slave to it.