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So I realized recently, time has made a full shift. Its been changing sure, over the course of my life, and I think the first shift was really when I realized how short a year was when I was in college. But it stayed mostly the same, of course speeding up over those four years. But in the past couple years, its continued to speed up, to where its shifted to another time-frame altogether I think. A year is no longer this period of time that it once was. It no longer feels the same length or encompasses the same period of my life or holds the same weight or significance that it once did.

Time is almost to the point where minutes have replaced what seconds were to me as a child, in my current mental schema of time frames. An hour is like 15 minutes used to be. A day, like a couple hours as a child. A month goes by as a fast as a week did as a child. A year is like maybe a season. A year is no longer this seemingly infinite time space in which I exist, its simply the next chunk of time in my life I have to plan what I want to do in my life, and before I know it its gone only to have another in its place. I mean, its 2007 already!!! I still remember being amazed that the nineties, which encompassed so much of my life and had such significance, were coming to a close to usher in a WHOLE NEW CENTURY, and this decade feels like its almost over. Mentally, I feel comfortable with it being about 2004, maybe 2005- anything later than that makes me think "when did YOU get here already??"

Incredible. This is what it feels like to get older. Im curious how it is for someone my parents' age (parents feel free to chime in) or my grandparents age, you know? As it is, I feel like the weeks go by so fast I hardly have time to take stock of my time for the week- when I reach middle age, will time be flying by so fast that I can barely hold on as the wind rushes by faster and faster, and at some point I let go and fly off and everything fades to black? Well I imagine not :), but I sure have some adjusting to do before then if time intends on continuing to speed up at this rate...