The nature of time is interesting to think about especially as we grow older. When I think about how fast it moves the older I become, the more I wonder why it didn’t move faster when I was young.
Think about it.
When we were children time passed slowly. We were always wishing for the school day to end; wondering how soon summer would get here; hating every second in that dentist chair. Time seemed like it was against us most of the time; always pushing back what we wanted to do and where we wanted to be. It moved slower than molasses poured from a jar.
As adults, time moves a lot faster. There isn’t enough time in the day to do what we need to do, and the years slip by as if they were less than a week. Tomorrow will be Christmas; the next day will be summer; then Christmas returns again. It’s hard to believe that 2009 is already here and by tomorrow 2010 will have already come.
This type of reason seems paradoxical, doesn’t it? Time just doesn’t give us what we want no matter what age we are and yet it is always part of our lives; telling us when to do something, where to be at any given moment.
I know. I know. Responsibility. That is the answer, isn’t it? The older we become the more responsibilities we have to manage, and the management of these responsibilities takes time. Hogwash, I say . . . and yet perhaps this is true.
There is a scientific theory that time isn’t as linear as we might want to believe. There is no past or future; that, in fact, all of time occurs at a singular moment. So my fifth-year birthday is happening even as I write this just as my eighty-third birthday is. It all happens at once.
I want time to slow down the older I get, not speed up. There are too many books to read, too many stories to write, too many places I have yet to travel to. If I were to immerse myself in the notion that all of time was happening at once then maybe I could tap into what part really matters.
I guess that part would be the here, the right now, the present.
Copyright © Tyler Gant 2009
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