Time

Time changes everything AND everyone...and in the end everything again. I was just thinking back on what used to be important to me when I was just 10 years younger and how those things have evolved into new and larger dreams. My peers are going through it too and conversations we have are turning into political discussions instead of gossip and party recaps. I've realized time goes by so fast you don't notice your parents hair turning gray until you stop one day and see the smile lines on your mom's face have grown deeper. I find myself giving advice to the younger of my friends and family. You look up and see your baby brother on one knee in front of his young bride. Trials that you thought you would never survive have transformed into a faded memory that rarely ever appears in your minds eye, for all you know is every time in your short life you have fallen it has made it easier to bear the next stumble. It's a scary time to think of losing those you love because of the years catching up quickly behind them, I want more time. The excitment of growing families within our own keeps the hope alive and somehow tames the sorrow of knowing that the circle of life stops for no one. Aging also makes you harder, but knowing when to wear that sheild is a delicate balance because there's a difference in being jaded. Time marches on and my thoughts race about what the following years will bring, I hope I appreciate the then as much as I do the now.