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#189142 - 08/31/09 11:56 AM
...when a minute was a minute?
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Registered: 01/16/07
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Is time going faster, or does it just seem that way because we are older?
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#189150 - 08/31/09 01:56 PM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: jabber]
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It seems the years fly by faster as I get older...I mean...where the heck did the last 30 years go? Larry and I heard on TV something that had happened 40 years ago...we looked at each other and said, good grief...are we that old?
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#189174 - 09/01/09 04:38 AM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: Dee]
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Registered: 11/19/08
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The older you get, the faster time flies. Even my 87 year old mother can't get over how fast time goes. But you know, I noticed when I'm on vacation; time seems to be slower. At home, it just wizzes by...zing zing zing.
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#189196 - 09/01/09 11:38 AM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 03/22/05
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I find that time flies so much faster since I retired...I don't remember it ever going this fast when I was working, except on vacation. Hindsight makes some of those difficulot years look like tiny blips in time...which helps to give perspective now...all things do eventually pass, don't they!
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#189201 - 09/01/09 12:01 PM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: Eagle Heart]
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I was hoping it wasn't just me... not that I want you all to be experiencing the same thing, too. But, it is comforting to know that I'm not losing out on something so special - time... really haven't ever put a value on it before. Sure, I've thought or commented on how I'd like to have a little bit more (i.e. time off or for a project), but this is so different. This is as if the day is shorter, like jabber said "Get up. Go to bed. Get up. Go to bed. 'round and 'round we go and where we stop nobody knows!" It's much like that! Guess the best thing to do is appreciate every SECOND, every BREATH! --- bring honor to each and every one of them. I'm hoping for 30 more years, banking on 20, expecting 10-15, ready for (at least) 5.... best learn to appreciate what I have NOW!, something I've been lax in doing. Expecting time to start going even faster.
... remember what I was doing at this time 5 years ago?... I can't even remember 5 weeks ago... honestly, I racked my brain, trying to write down some hours spent for my neighbor and could NOT recall some particulars (which were very important)... (another good reason to keep a journal)... I think, for me, it's all because people don't think I have anything to do and keep asking for favors --- would you mind doing this, can you help me with that, etc... trying to juggle is time consuming, in itself. I'm use to a life of routine, knowing what will come at what hour and for what purpose...
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#189207 - 09/01/09 12:34 PM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: jawjaw]
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lol... I use to be a fanatical list maker, JJ... in fact, that was one thing that my DH use to poke fun at me about the most. I've gotten out of the habit, because things became so sporadic - sister calls needing help with math; daughter calls needing me to pick the g/k up from school; hubby calls asking that I run to pick up something or other from the computer store for his work; and so on. My days are interrupted, regularly, hardly giving me much of a 'routine.' I love it in some regards, but find I can't plan for my own day. I keep thinking the Lord is keeping me 'alive' by sending others' needs my way. It gives me great pleasure to serve others in such little ways, and I think the Lord knows that... And, He probably knows I might choose to twittle my days away, otherwise.
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#189211 - 09/01/09 01:07 PM
Re: ...when a minute was a minute?
[Re: gims]
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Five years ago, I was getting my older grandson pysched into accepting a new baby in the family. He wanted a brother but, got a sister instead. I have the same 24 hours that you do; I just don't waste any. That's a good quote to live by.
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