It's amazing how you can feel like it's been such a short time, and yet forever at the same time. It's been a little over two months since I moved here, and while it seems like it's gone by in a flash, at the same time I feel like I've known these people forever, lived here forever, carried on with classes and teaching and pool nights at the bar forever.
It's been almost 21 1/2 years since my relatively short time on Earth began. How crazy is that? My entire life, very literally, in just over two decades. Forever for me, and yet a blink of an eye for the universe. What were you up to when I was playing on the swings? Learning algebra? Applying to college? Where were all of you in your lives?
I can see this time slipping away and soon I'll be looking for a job, starting a family, raising kids... But forever is still forever and still lies before me. I haven't even joined a lab, yet I know soon it will be time to leave one. Hindsight is 20/20, but also 150 mph.
Time is a funny thing. Regardless of how much or how little attention you pay it, it always slips through your grasp. And it's always constant, regardless of our perception of it. Pretty soon, we'll all just be memories.
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