A friend posted on Facebook tonight that it is 17yrs since their mum died. My first reaction was that they had made a mistake, but then I stopped and thought and rather sadly realised that they were correct. It got me thinking about "life's moments" and I started to put a few numbers together. Thirty years since I left school, Sixteen since I got divorced, fourteen at my current job, it all seems like yesterday. Where does the time go?
It only gets worse or better which ever way you look at it.
It's coming up for fifty six years since I left school, forty five since my first marrage, thirty since my divorce and have not long had a sliver wedding to my ever loving now wife, fives kids between us and fourteen grand kids and I haven't got time to wonder where the time went.
God I make you feel old doesn't it!
Twenty one years since dad past away not have acheived great grandad hood by a month and fourteen since mum went, such is life!
How true..When we are in company with friends and you chat about events that have happened in the past. I will say do you remember when such and such happened, must be 2-3 years ago.
Then I can see all the cogs turning with the others and we all realise it was nearer 10 years ago it actually happened
------------- It is a wise man who has something to say.
It is a fool who has to say something.
I cant believe where the years have gone too.Have you ever passed a shop window and seen your reflection as said to yourself...God is that me,am an old guy now ?
Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 19/2/2016
I cant believe where the years have gone too.Have you ever passed a shop window and seen your reflection as said to yourself...God is that me,am an old guy now ?
When I do that it's usually my dad looking back at me
I think this sort of thing first hit me about 3.5 years ago, when I was 49... and passed the age my Dad reached! That was scary, in all honesty! I thought (at the time) he was old when he died... how wrong I was!
Currently, looking ahead to the immediate future and immediate family issues (Grand daughter due in April, but is about as poorly as an unborn baby can be, it seems), I fear Old Father Time is about to become our biggest enemy!
Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 19/2/2016
I cant believe where the years have gone too.Have you ever passed a shop window and seen your reflection as said to yourself...God is that me,am an old guy now ?
I did once... then I realised it was a mannequin in Greenwoods!
The way to cheer yourself up is to not think of "so many years" ago - a friend once lamented that we had both been working at the same place for twenty-five years.... I replied, "Don't think of it that way - just think of it as quarter of a century..."
His response was just two words, the second being "off"....
Gram
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To pursue the toilet roll analogy, I think it's merely that the perforations in our lives seem to come round more and more often...especially with the Andrex Puppy Effect, when grandchildren jerk the roll too fiercely and the whole lot unrolls onto the floor!
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Topic: Where does the time go?
