I can hardly wrap my mind around the fact that it is less than a week until Thanksgiving. Where does the time go? I guess it certainly is true whoever said "life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes." I remember being a child and thinking a year seemed like it went on forever. Now days, it seems like a week is like a day, a month like a week, and a year isn't really very long. Its amazing how your perspective changes over time.
It seems like just a few months ago when it became the year 2000, and everyone was so concerned about what the change could mean to the world. And now its nearly fourteen years later. It just doesn't seem fair how so much time has slipped away? And sometimes I think back and wonder how in the world can I be this old? But I've been pretty fortunate, and hope that continues for a good many more years. Then I look at my nearly thirty year old daughter, and think, yes, you really are that old.
Or I can look out the window and see the once cleared side hill behind my house, where we used to pasture cattle. We used to keep it up every Summer, cutting and burning what needed to be done. I can barely see the ground any longer, for the scrub brush, weeds, and trees. Time waits for no one, and Nature definitely takes its course. But then, I guess that's the way it goes, and what is expected in the natural scheme of things. Or even the cycle of life, as we know it. If life spun its wheels, none of us who are presently here, would be here now, and the world as we know it, would not exist.
So I suppose we have to take life as it comes, hope for the best, and live our lives to the fullest we are able. We have such a limited amount, and some more than others, allotted to us. Normally I don't really have any great expectations of the holidays, because we don't usually celebrate them with any great amount of gusto. Although I always look forward to my daughter's coming home, and now my beautiful little granddaughter. It is always great to see them, and get to spend some time with them, even though way too short. But then, I try to be very grateful for the good things in life.
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