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Zooming By Through The Years….

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There are really some days that I wish that time is not an intangible object, but something that could be adjusted to fit one’s purpose through the years.

There are days that my to do list is as tall as my 5 ft 11″ if not taller and there is insufficient time to get it all done in one day. There is so much to do and so little time.

Sometimes I sincerely wish that these years will go at a snail pace, so that I will have enough time to savour those I love through the years.

You wake up in the morning and before you turn around it’s evening and the day has just flown past, which is why the phrase of making hay while the Sun shines never fails to reverberate in my mind.

Even if you refused to make the hay, time will still zoom by and the bales of hay to be made still awaits you.

I can remember when I was a small girl which seems like yesterday, and people in their thirties seemed ancient to me.

I can never forget a would be suitor *arranged marriage* that came seeking for my hand when I was barely 18. He was a doctor in his 30’s residing in Italy and I can still recall my horror at the thought of marrying someone who was possibly my fathers age.

Now, here I am, older, wiser, yet still very young in my head at times.

Sometimes, I do nothing, but just ponder over the essence of time and life.

Would I wake up one day and find that I have been dreaming my life all along?

Ever since my sense of how fast time goes by became acute, I try to make each day count, live in each moment and get the best that I can out of it.

With the conscious reality that the best things in life are for free, the onus rests on me to endeavour to enjoy these best things as much as life makes available to me.

There is no time to spend over inane issues. We can’t stop time, but we can embrace what we have and be the pilot’s of our given moments.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

The Daily Post Pace Oddity

If you could slow down an action that usually zooms by, or speed up an event that normally drags on, which would you choose, and why?

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A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.

23 thoughts on “Zooming By Through The Years….”

  1. An interesting question. I remember writing a blog post that addressed this actually. Part of it was specifically about time. “I hope for time… and that it does not pass me by so quickly that I miss out on everything around me before I am so old that it is too late. My daughter is growing up so quickly. I missed her holiday concert because my disabilities have me homebound… the sorrow is a heavy weight.” I think the key is really to live in the moment… more than anything else.

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    1. Very, very true. Living in the moment and squeezing the best juice out of it. I am sorry about your challenges. Such situation can make ordinary things a hurdle. More blessings. May time not pass us by until we’ve lived to do those things that our hearts hanker for.

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  2. Until now, I don’t want to change my life because I like the way it is. But if I have to choose in which period I can experience, that would be the day when I can meet my parents in their teenage period. To know them as an ordinary person, not as a parents.

    Does it count?

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I love it when you decorate my heart with your words..