Boom!
5.2.09
I heard from a friend who wrote, “Can you believe the school year is almost over? It seemed to drag so much in the fall and early winter, and then boom — it’s over.”
Boom indeed. This is a classic case of time flying. In the fall, I was all in a bundle over Sean leaving. Then I got used to the idea (with a few rough patches thrown in, of course), and then I went through a phase of introspection, when I turned inward and just wanted my family back together in one place. Now that’s about to happen — Sean will be coming home soon, and Alex is wrapping up his out-of-state job. So, just about as suddenly as my family went — on a day-to-day basis, at least — from four to three to two, now it’s going to jump back up to three, followed soon after by four.
And, as with almost everything else in life, in retrospect, time flew by… but according to how it felt in the moment, it’s wasn’t flying by.
This same friend’s child is really looking forward to being home again this summer because she thinks it will be the last time that all of her old high school friends will be together before they go off to do exciting things in their lives. I wonder if that’s true. It probably is. I guess it was true for me — after the first summer in college, I stayed in Madison and didn’t go back home.
This summer I’ll be attending my 30-year high school class reunion. I wonder if other people went off and did exciting things with their lives. And did I?
Whether I did or not… BOOM! Time has flown.
Boom indeed. This is a classic case of time flying. In the fall, I was all in a bundle over Sean leaving. Then I got used to the idea (with a few rough patches thrown in, of course), and then I went through a phase of introspection, when I turned inward and just wanted my family back together in one place. Now that’s about to happen — Sean will be coming home soon, and Alex is wrapping up his out-of-state job. So, just about as suddenly as my family went — on a day-to-day basis, at least — from four to three to two, now it’s going to jump back up to three, followed soon after by four.
And, as with almost everything else in life, in retrospect, time flew by… but according to how it felt in the moment, it’s wasn’t flying by.
This same friend’s child is really looking forward to being home again this summer because she thinks it will be the last time that all of her old high school friends will be together before they go off to do exciting things in their lives. I wonder if that’s true. It probably is. I guess it was true for me — after the first summer in college, I stayed in Madison and didn’t go back home.
This summer I’ll be attending my 30-year high school class reunion. I wonder if other people went off and did exciting things with their lives. And did I?
Whether I did or not… BOOM! Time has flown.
