TIME

Well, Thanksgiving 2008 is now a memory and Christmas is only 25 days away. Where does the time go? How much of our lives do we measure in time elements other than the obvious days, months, and years?

We seem to measure time by what is going to be....those things we anticipate. Turning 16 to get a drivier's license, turning 21 to drink, turning 65 to retire, etc. We get pregnant and we count down our lives in one month intervals until 9 months has been reached. We plan that once-in-a-life time vacation and count the days down until departure. As a chil, we impatiently counted down the days till Christmas.

We measure time past in elements of events......those things which have past, but still linger with us. We count the time that has past when we have lost a loved one by their death anniversary date. We remember those days when time seemed to stand still in our memories.....Kennedy's assissination, 9/11, etc. We can remember certain events in detail when we related them to some special memory of our own in the past.

When I was little and was anticipating a birthday or Christmas or summer vacation, etc., my grandmother used to say to me, "Don't be in such a hurry for time to pass...it passes fast enough as it is and as you get older, it passes more quickly with every passing year." I looked at her in total confusion. How could time pass faster at one age than another. A minute is a miniute, an hour is an hour, a day is a day, a month is a month, a year is a year, etc.

Somehow the mystery of her remark has caught up with me. We have all heard that old addage when we retire..."How did I ever find time to do the things I wanted to when I was working?"
I still can't explain the scientific underlying logic in her statement, but I can't deny that is is not true. It doesn't make sense and in reality is not possible by all laws of the universe and nature.

But is is also a reality. Every year time seems to pass even more quickly than the year before. Maybe we are just trying to put as much as we can in a 24 hour period. I don't know. What I do know is this: "How can it be 11/30 when I am still living in May!!!!!"

ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA: Under whose administration was Thanksgiving declared a national holiday? Abraham Lincoln's
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Whose slogan from 1950-1953 was "More Bounce to the Ounce"?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: When I was young we used to go "skinny dipping," now I just "chunky dunk."