Time Marches On
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, "Time and tide wait for no man." Life and time are inextricably connected. Practically from conception, we measure life in time. We measure gestation in weeks, then we move on to measuring infancy in months. Somewhere around 2 years old I stopped counting my children's ages in months, but that was really just because it was too much math. Childhood is measured in half years and milestones. Adulthood is measured in milestones and decades. Time is predictable, measurable, and universal. In my own life, there was a point where I stopped really paying attention to time. It's really only when specifically pointed out do I sit and think about passing time. For example, I recently realized that I have known one of my dearest and best friends for 26 years. My first reaction to this realization was, where did those 26 years go? My niece graduated high school this past spring and went off to college, but I could have sworn I held her in the hospital for...