Time

I have to admit I'm amazed when I think of how long I've been married. Getting married at the ripe old age of 19, it shouldn't strike me with such force that it's been 9 years since we got married. There have been so many good memories with which those years have been filled. We were married 5 years before we had any kids. Somehow those 5 years of marriage zoomed by much faster than any set of 5 years prior to that. There are two years between my son and my twin girls. How did those two years fly by so quickly? And yet, I think about the fact that my girls are over 2 now and I'm amazed at how quickly time has passed. Yet in the same thought, it feels that they've been part of the family forever. When I was a teenager, time could not go quickly enough. Grade school seemed to take forever. Then middle school. Finally high school. I was ready to begin life and really start living. And I have, I just didn't know that life starts going double-time after you reach about 18 years old. My mom insists that it only gets worse, that in a blink of an eye my babies will be teenagers. Blink again and they'll have their own kids. My task now is to find joy in each moment because it does pass all too quickly. Although day to day, sometimes I find myself thinking, "I can't wait until..." But here I am looking back on life wishing I could go back to younger me and say, "Don't live in the future. Live in the present, doing all you can each moment to make the most of it". If I want to say that to the younger me, then it follows that the current me needs to hear it too. So here's to living for each moment before they are all to quickly gone.