Tom Hoefling
July 6, 2015
On the face of it, it seems like the young are speeding along, and the old are slow. But as you get older, you realize the opposite is true.
When you're young, life seems endless. The choices are practically limitless. You're focused mainly inward on yourself, and your own life, so you don't look around and see life speeding by. Then you marry, and have children. Suddenly it's not all about you any more.
Your twenties and thirties flash by. Your forties come and go in what seems like a moment. Pretty soon you look around, and your own children are walking down the aisle, and having children of their own, and then they are growing quickly toward adulthood.
You spent your childhood asking your father a million times: 'Are we there yet?' And you end your life asking, 'Are we there already?'