The Creep
Time is all about perspective.
This isn't deep, it's not new, and I'm not saying it for you. I am saying it to you, but not for you. I'm saying it for me.
Time is all about perspective.
It seems, to me, like years are starting to slip by. In the golden days of my teens I was lucky (or so it'd seem at times) if an hour slipped by, and when months began to creep out the door two at a time during my college days I was quite shocked.
For several months now I've been trying to plan the next few years of my life; you know this because I've mentioned it before. Plans change, break, twist, and shift... but they're good to have, if for no other reason than to measure how different the future can be from the ideas that rattle around inside our heads. That's not what's at issue here.
The point is that, despite that planning, I hadn't yet had The Thought that has prompted me to run around in metaphorical circles for six poorly-planned paragraphs; I caught myself thinking of how damn quickly the four years of my students are passing. I actually thought to myself, "Next year my first class will have become Juniors, and then it's only one more year. Why did I think highschool was so long?"
That's a scary thing to think, giving all sorts of perspective on my future, my age, future attempts at education, and the people that have had those thoughts as they aged before me.
I close a chapter of my life in the next two months, but it's a chapter that's run on to cheap pulp novella long ago and is already over in everything but name. Is it 'Chapter Three: After the Diploma,' or 'Chapter Four: Now For the Happily Ever After'? I don't know.
But I do know things are always changing. You can see it in the papers, on the streets, and on the little bits of knowledge streaking around at the speed of light. People who complain that "nothing ever changes"aren't paying attention to the right things; they watch the horizon and get hit by the guy in the truck.
Change is the only way we have to measure time. And time is all about perspective.
This isn't deep, it's not new, and I'm not saying it for you. I am saying it to you, but not for you. I'm saying it for me.
Time is all about perspective.
It seems, to me, like years are starting to slip by. In the golden days of my teens I was lucky (or so it'd seem at times) if an hour slipped by, and when months began to creep out the door two at a time during my college days I was quite shocked.
For several months now I've been trying to plan the next few years of my life; you know this because I've mentioned it before. Plans change, break, twist, and shift... but they're good to have, if for no other reason than to measure how different the future can be from the ideas that rattle around inside our heads. That's not what's at issue here.
The point is that, despite that planning, I hadn't yet had The Thought that has prompted me to run around in metaphorical circles for six poorly-planned paragraphs; I caught myself thinking of how damn quickly the four years of my students are passing. I actually thought to myself, "Next year my first class will have become Juniors, and then it's only one more year. Why did I think highschool was so long?"
That's a scary thing to think, giving all sorts of perspective on my future, my age, future attempts at education, and the people that have had those thoughts as they aged before me.
I close a chapter of my life in the next two months, but it's a chapter that's run on to cheap pulp novella long ago and is already over in everything but name. Is it 'Chapter Three: After the Diploma,' or 'Chapter Four: Now For the Happily Ever After'? I don't know.
But I do know things are always changing. You can see it in the papers, on the streets, and on the little bits of knowledge streaking around at the speed of light. People who complain that "nothing ever changes"aren't paying attention to the right things; they watch the horizon and get hit by the guy in the truck.
Change is the only way we have to measure time. And time is all about perspective.
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