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Time Passes Slowly
When I was a kid, school lasted forever, and Christmas always seemed eons away. But the older I get, the faster time seems to pass.
Maybe its because when youre nine and you want to go to Mt. Rushmore and your mom says well do it next summer, that might as well be in the next ice age. Thats 1/10 of your life away! It doesnt compute.
When youre 40, that same vacation is only 2.5% of your life away, 12 short months. Its easily imagined and can be planned for.
But there are some ways you may make time pass more slowly. For instance:
· Have a child when youre fifty years old, that will help the time crawl by.
· Have an injury and be bed-ridden for two months. It will seem like two years.
· Try re-reading The Last of the Mohicans, or The Biography of Edward R. Murrow by A.M. Sperber.
· Drive from Rapid City to Bison in a car with two cutting horse people, or two airplane pilots, or two chain smokers.
· Drive across Texas, or Nebraska, or Seattle, or Saskatchewan, or Pennsylvania, or Atlanta.
· Drive from Boise to Mountain Home, Denver to Ft. Collins, Cleveland to Akron, or Ft. Davis, Texas to anywhere.
· Arrive on time for a doctors appointment.
· Drink six cups of coffee then attend the Baptist Church service.
· Take your childs third grade class to see the Pokeman movie.
· Anticipate cleaning your shop, your garage, your junkyard, your teenagers room, or your collection drawer.
· Buy a new pair of boots and go to the dance.
· Go on a three-day wilderness pack trip, having not been on a horse for two years.
· Run out of chewing tobacco, smokes, beer or sunscreen on your assault on Mt. Everest.
· Go deep-sea fishing off the coast of Oregon in March with no Dramamine.
· Be standing second in the team roping on a 7.3 with 42 teams left to go.
· Learn to call coyotes.
· And finally, call the vet when youve got a colicky horse, the border patrol when your house is surrounded, or the plumber as the water level is raising the linoleum floor in you kitchen, and it will seem forever before they arrive!
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