Rewind, pause, and fast forward

Time doesn’t have a rewind button to go back to moments when everything seemed a thousand times easier. And there is no such thing as a pause button to avoid the transition of growing up from these little kids to teenagers to these older adult versions of ourselves. If anything, it may seem like the fast forward button of time is jammed as life flashes before our eyes and becomes difficult to keep up with.
Why does it seem like just yesterday when we dreamt of being doctors, firefighters, superheroes, princesses, singers, or whatever gigantic dreams emerged from our small selves? How did eventually grow up into people that we never really planned to be, without even realizing it? Did time really go that fast that we hardly had opportunity to say goodbye to our youth before being thrusted into the rest of our lives?
There’s this realization that time waits for nobody. That it will constantly go forward in it’s rapid pace. And it’s our jobs to keep up with it. To make sure we enjoy each moment and move forward with it. That our dreams don’t need to die and be stuck in the past, but it’s our job to keep our dreams alive with us so it’s part of our future. Time moves quickly, and it always has, and probably always will. So we have no excuses to why we’re not taking advantage of every second of it.