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DEL.ICIO.USCatching up with Father Time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We have one of those clocks in the house that sets itself according to some massive time-keeping device so we always have the ultimate correct time. Part of its claim is that it constantly monitors and resets itself so it’s never wrong.
Lately I’ve started to think the dang thing is running fast. It’s the only explanation for all sorts of things going on here that don’t add up.
My wife and I had a conversation the other night about how we’d get our daughter packed up from her college dorm at the University of South Carolina and home in a few weeks. But that can’t be - she only left for college a month ago, right?
This is the same child who just got her braces off last week. I think. There’s no way she could be finishing her first year of college. Is there?
Our son called to say he’d be home for a couple of days in May and was bringing his girlfriend. He says they’ve been dating a year, but that can’t be right because it was only last fall that he was playing high school football. At least that’s the way I remember it.
And there’s no way he can be the one interning this summer in Washington, D.C. That would mean he’d be a senior at Indiana next fall and he doesn’t even have his driver’s license yet. He does? When did that happen?
I had lunch with a friend last week — he told me his oldest was 13. But that can’t be right because that would mean my wife and I have been an item for 14 years. It can’t have been 14 years. We’re still just cresting the big 4-0, give or take. And she’s as cute as the day I met her.
People tell me that time is passing, but that much time hasn’t gone by. Or has it? Can’t be. I know my eyes have lost a little of their edge lately, but c’mon.
I blame the clock. It has to be running fast. Maybe I need to take the battery out.
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By Tom Osterman
April 7, 2008 11:32 PM | Link to this
Yo, Bro! It’s not that time goes too fast, it’s that it goes, period, and there’s no getting it back! Take it from a guy who gave his Little Girl (thirty years old!) away at the altar last month. They may not be the dear little ones you miss so much, but they’re still your children, and always will be. And if you’re feeling old now, just imagine how you would feel to be your age without any children. AS long as your kids are alive and doing all right, you’re doing well!
By fk
April 9, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
I was in the sixth grade and remember thinking that I would turn 37 y/o in the year 2000. That sounded sooo old. I can’t believe it’s come and gone! Doesn’t it feel like just yesterday we were all freaking out about that Y2K thing? We’re now researching colleges for my baby who was born 17 years ago. Stop the clock! At least, take the time and enjoy the precious moments in life. Thanks for the reminder.