As a child, I would often find myself on the merry-go-round located in a nearby elementary school playground. My father and I would walk to the school, if the weather was exceptionally nice, and play for what seemed like an eternity before the sun would begin to sink behind the tall pine trees.
While on the merry-go-round, my father would push and I would yell, "Make me go faster, Daddy!" I loved going fast! Things around me would become a blur as I moved in a circular pattern. Slowly, the merry-go-round would slow down and I would find myself dizzy from all of the motion. I would lay flat on the bed of the merry-go-round and watch the clouds move above me...probably while Daddy was catching his breath.
What a ride it was!
I then advanced to rides such as the tilt-a-whirl and the octopus and the squirrel cages - all found at our local fair. I wished for them to go faster and faster, too. Speed really did something to me!
It's funny, but now, I wish the speed at which I currently find myself would slow down. I think that things are moving way too fast...things like my kids growing up, my parents aging, and my calendar filling up. What happened to the days when I found myself bored? I can't remember when the last time I was bored actually was...interesting.
I am currently reading a book entitled, "Chasing Daylight," and in it, the author suggests that we miss too many divine moments simply because we are waiting for tomorrow, or for the next best thing to come along. I don't want to do that. I want to cherish each moment that life has to offer...if only I could schedule that into my planner.
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I totally understand how you feel about how your reference of time seems to change in the blink of an eye. I think most of us just keep thinking that there will eventually be a time when it all slows back down again and we wait for that but as you said, you miss out on too much.
(And a side note, have you gone on one of those "spinning rides" lately? I used to LOVE those things and I took my nephew to a carnival and had the worst headache when I got off. It was so disappointing that something I loved at one point was awful now.)
It is crazy how we often pass up little moments in life in pursuit for big one. We must claim them because these tend to be the things we remember far greater than the larger ones. Sometimes you can write it in the planner, you just have to do it.
It's similar to the saying "You can't see the forest for the trees" except backwards, I think. We keep looking beyond and miss the minute details in the here and now.
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