I remember when time seemed to take forever. The years of adolescence were a nightmare of slowness that felt like they would never end. College seemed to take aeons to finish. (It did take me 5 years.) My eleven years in the one company I loved seemed like a pretty long time.
My last twenty years has gone by in a blip, a moment hardly recognized or appreciated as it passed. Funny. That twenty years has seen me reach a financial solvency that would have been unimaginable the year I graduated from college. It has featured the most durable relationship with a partner. But it has been a blip.
I remember events from 20 or 25 years ago as if they were yesterday. From where i stand, it was yesterday.
So if you are a twenty something, don't worry. Things will speed up. It will all be over before you know it.
I do have a talent for depressing myself.
What comes to mind are names: C. M., 30s, would be priest killed with his family in a car accident; J. W., 30's, a mother, drowned in a car accident; G. B. 40s?, an unloved female colleague, suicide; B. M. 40s?, a friend of my wife's, suicide by pills and drowning; J. V., 50ish?, client and friend, suicide by gun;... My own mother and father should be on the list, gone at 46 and 53 or so.
How many are we now? Going on 7 billion. I guess everything is all a matter of perspective.
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