Time is on Your Side

Here we are, welcoming in the holiday season and the end of another year.  Hard to believe!  And yet, is it?  As a kid, I remember hearing adults say things like “I don’t know where the time goes” or “time won’t slow down” and that perspective made no sense to me.  In my world, it took forever for math class to end, lunch period to arrive, and the holidays to get here.

I’ve always looked forward to this time of year with a childlike anticipation.  I remember driving with my dad one day 30+ years ago the day after Thanksgiving - I was figuring out how many weeks until winter break, trying to convince myself that 3 weeks wasn’t really that long.  My dad picked up that I was wishing time away and said, “a lot can happen in 3 weeks”.  Well, that really burst my bubble and brought me right back down to reality.  A lot can happen in 3 weeks.  He might as well have said Christmas has been removed from the calendar; it made everything I was looking forward to seem impossibly far away.  Fast forward to now and he was right.  In the last 3 weeks my life has expanded in ways I couldn’t have anticipated one year, 6 months, or even 1 month ago.  And, as I sit here writing this blog about a time when time felt     s     l     o     w     I’m hearing myself say, “time flies”.  How ‘bout that.  I’m definitely older, happier to be wiser, and most grateful for the awareness that time was never my enemy…I just didn’t know how to see it as my friend.

Do you?