Time. It’s something you start to become more aware of as you continue to get older. You start to notice more and more how much time has passed and how fast it seems to go by. I always found it mind boggling and worrying that life seems to go faster every single year. I remember being in 7th grade, 13 years old, and so aware of life flying by. I remember one day in class, my teacher was talking about something relating to the fact and one of the most unlikely of my classmates shook his head disparingly and said, “life goes faster every year.” I wasn’t the only one plagued with these thoughts. It was not until later that I realized that there was a perfectly logical reason as to why time feels like it’s going so quickly. People often think that years are getting shorter. This is because a year becomes shorter compared to the amount of time you have been a live. To a 5 year old, a year is 20% of their entire life. To a 20 year old, it is only 5%. It’s so simple, yet so worrisome at the same time.

I find myself sometimes longing to be a kid again. I’d love to be back in elementary school where life was just life. You just lived it. Stress didn’t exist. Time didn’t exist. It just went by. The future seemed so far off, it was almost as if it didn’t exist. I remember being in elementary school and hearing teachers talk about college which was always follwed by, “you guys still have a while yet.” Now here I am, closing in on the end of my sophomore year of college. College. The 7 letters that were so far down the road, and then they just hit you like a bus. You spend so many years just living without a worry in the world and then all of those worries you thought you’d never have just appear. Life is weird. Time is weird. 
Just before spring break, I bought 4 books. One of those books was Slaughterhouse-V by Kurt Vonnegut. I read about half of it during the past week and I loved everything about it. So far, I think the story, possibly unintentionally, pokes at how weird life is. It’s crazy how you can get lost when everything is right in front of you. Oh well.
So it goes.