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Time!; Son, you'll find that as you get older, time goes by faster
Topic Started: Dec 13 2013, 08:42 PM (122 Views)
Banandangees
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What a stupid statement. How could my father have said such a thing?


When you're a kid in the 1930's & 40s, you think Christmas is never going to get here, not that you were going to get much.... maybe a bucket of coal.

When you're in school, you think recess will never get here; 3:30 will never get here; graduation will never get here.

When you're in the military, you think "separation from active duty" will never come.

Same with college.

Same with pay day.

Same with paying off your car, then your home, getting Obama out of office.


Now today, all that just seems like yesterday and here I am where a few of my neighbors were a short time ago and gone now. Where some had been and are now, looking back to how fast time has and is going by. Christmas again... already? Why do I not look forward to it anymore? Where are all my old friends? Now I understand Admiral James Stockdale's famous words, "Who am I, why am I here?" (that's a GOP thing) :33:



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Pat
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I can relate.

I remember the Sears catalog was worn out by us kids scouring the pages with bikes and the few toys they offered. The Western Auto store must have paid someone hourly to wipe off the boogers and slobber from the kids whose noses were stuck there looking at the bikes and stuff. I swear the clock never moved in school, I have proof, I watched it constantly. I thought being 16 and driving was so far in the distant, that it was hopeless to wish it were tomorrow. Boot camp and then off to Ft. Benning for even more of the same was at least four centuries long. It took ten lifetimes to get back in one piece. And I failed at that one. When the first daughter was born followed shortly by her brother, getting them raised and through college and then out on their own took 1,700 years. And it's been over 2,000 for the young ones. A very good friend I just learned, had a series of strokes in his motorhome just outside Albuquerque. A series of old girlfriends ands friend have passed on, three this year. Anyway, I guess that's life.
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Back in the 70's I was backpacking around Europe. In one youth hostel there was a 60 year old backpacker. We started talking about age. He told me that time goes faster. He said that one day when I was old, I would remember the conversation and it would seem like a year ago. That was 1971. He was dead on, I remember it like yesterday.
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