Families are Partners In Time

Benjamin Franklin wrote “Lost time is never found again.” 

Ponder on that quote a moment, and remember the saying, “Time flies when you are having fun.” What is it about TIME that makes us feel that it has different speeds?  I remember when I was a junior in high school and I had come “home” to visit my grandparents in Fredericksburg. While talking with my OPA about the future, we talked about time. I mentioned how the year had flown by and he made the comment that time moves faster the older you get. As I have aged, I have found that statement about TIME to be very true.

I also notice that when we are waiting for something, it seems like minutes can become hours. When we are heading towards something or someone, it seems to take forever, but the drive back returns to normal speed.

Studies say that it is “desirable” time that seems to move us more quickly. “It seems to be the goal, pursuit or achievement-directed action we are engaged in that really matters. Just being content or satisfied may not make time fly, but being excited or actively pursuing a desired object can create the feeling of time moving more quickly.” Excerpt from Philip Gable and Bryan Pool study

I have listened to my children and prior co-workers talk about how fast this school year has flown by. I will conclude that we are all having a desirable experience as we move through our life!

Families travel through TIME together, as partners, and though I do not desire to have my life pass more quickly by, I will reflect on how important the positive journey needs to be.

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa