A Question of Time

My eleven-year-old grandson was recently expounding on the reasons why, he believes, school days and holidays should be switched. One, of course, was that there isn’t enough days off and too many days when he has to go to school. I can certainly see his point of view. When I was his age, the time spent in the classroom seemed to go on forever. There was no end to it.

However, time is an amazing thing. It goes from being painfully slow to racing at the speed of light – or so it seems -- in just a few decades. At first it loses its ability to stand still then begins to rush quite dramatically. When you’re busy with work and raising a family, there’s never enough time for all you want to do. And when you retire, whether it is a full retirement or you still work part time, you are amazed that there never seems to be enough time to do all the things you want to do, and you wonder how you ever found time to work.

But you realize you’re not the only one to see time as an ever changing commodity when you hear your children wonder where time has gone and bemoan the fact that they too are feeling the advance of time.

But seeing time fly by is not all bad. It reminds us that we’d better get busy doing the things we want to do and stop putting them off because as we all know, without warning, time could run out of steam.