Time flies

Remember when you would hear “Time Flies” or “Life goes by in a flash” from teenagers and adults when you were younger? At the time, you probably could not of comprehended what they meant or completely understood how true and non-exaggerated those statements were. How could you? Fifteen minute recesses of playing soccer or talking with friends seemed like hours. Thirty minutes of classes where it seemed like you got a lot done seemed to take forever. Six years of your life in elementary just seemed carefree and it seemed like it was going to last for an eternity.
But as you grow up, you come to realize how scares time truly is. Junior high passes by quicker then elementary did, and high school literally goes by so fast that it feels like you have only just begun, when in reality, you are saying your final goodbyes to people you’ve been with for three years or more during graduation. The memories you have obtained become blurred, comparative to the view outside the window while in a car moving 100 kilometres per hour on the highway.
As I grow older and older, I have no doubt in my mind that I will be the one reiterating what I have heard so many times before, that “Time Flies” and “Life goes by in a flash” to the youth, only surely to be ignored or to be thought to be exaggerating the truth. But I’ll know that it is far from exaggerated. Time is precious. We can not waste time worrying in the midst of depression, anger, disappointments, regrets and stress, because in the end, it might be to late to realize how lucky we are just to be alive… to have the friends and family that we do have. We must not let time become a cruel thief, robbing us of our former selves; that young innocent version of ourselves that we once were who just enjoyed life. While there is still time, no matter how quickly it passes us by, let us enjoy it.