Time. How cruel is it? Seriously. I feel like I woke up today and realized suddenly that it was December. I mean, I KNEW it was December (duh), but it was only today when I was really hit by the realization that 2010 is indeed coming to a close. I couldn't believe it. It seemed like only yesterday when we celebrated New Year's Day. And now...?Time flies fast indeed. Like a light breeze that you enjoy too much so you become sleepy and lazy, wasting time. Or like a lightning bolt, jolting you awake now and then to make you act for once. Or like a whisper in the wind, which you strain to hear even when the wind carries it away.
We run after time, as it runs away, laughing and mocking us. I guess that's why we're fools.
Isn't it strange that when we're enjoying what we're doing, that's when time goes by most quickly? And when we hate what we're presently doing, time seems to drag on forever? Like during boring lessons, I would often glance at the time and would see that barely a minute has passed when it seemed like a century. That was torture. But here's another thing. When we want more time, the opposite happens: it speeds up like crazy. Like when I'm nearly late for school, I would move as fast as I can, and when I think I'm beating time to the finish line, I glance at my watch and...I'm late.
Like this week, for example. I can't wait for Christmas vacation to come, so I'm just excited. Bad move. Time seems to want some fun. It's because I couldn't believe how slow the days are moving. Seriously. It's only Tuesday today. Last week, the days flew by. Now, I feel like Christmas vacation is a million years into the future.
I'm not saying that time is an enemy. I think it's ourselves. We make ourselves slaves to time, when we are the ones who MAKE time. The thing is, we probably just can't help ourselves.
make time.
"It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up." ~J.K. Rowling
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