Where did the Yesterdays Go?

Time

Time. It's a funny thing, a weird concept. We usually dont think of... 

Or perhaps we do, but in a different way..

We have these ideas of time, these definitions and hypotheses of what we think it is..

Time, we think is 24 hours...it's minutes and seconds, days, weeks, months, and years

Time is.. say well:  time to go to school, time to eat, sleep, walk, sing, dance, work

Ok I think you get the point. We've simply put time into these categorical structures...

We've labeled it and think we've mastered and harnessed it, contained it...

And at this supposed great human accomplishment we seem to rejoice and celebrate it, because we claimed we've

Rebelled and defied it...

HMMM....really now? Are we going blind?

News flash, we haven't. And this news flash just came to me one day, kind of like

Some sort of epiphany...you know, sort of like when you realize your lifes calling, an answer to your problems, or something stupid like why the sky is blue, or the reason why your room smelt like salami, probably because of that rotting cheese under your bed...I think you get the point but ANYWAYS....

I never realized how inferior I was as a mere human being to time...

I was born, raised by my family all in a matter of time...

Went to elementary school, learned how to ride a bike, tie my shoes...

All those were mere fragments of time...

The lazy childhood summer days, spent playing cops and robbers, fighting with stick swords, making forts

Running after each other until our lungs burst, getting all dirtied up and having our mothers holler at us for dinner...those were...

All simple moments of time and then we

Went to highschool where there, we all thought we were too invincible for time

We thought, 4 years, will take ages of time to finish, we'll have a blast in the meantime

Yet, as naiive as we were, time gave us a rude awakening

Because in mere minutues as it seems now, we were all getting our drivers licenses, writing final exams, walking the stage,  receiving our diplomas...

Stressing over universities, Planning our prom, going crazy over our dresses, dancing our little hearts out and thinking we would have the time of our lives...

And we did, but time didnt give us a chance to slow it down and enjoy those mere flashes of time

And you know how I know? 

Because its been 2 years since those highschool days and I find myself reminising and dreaming of those days

missing my childhood phase

I find myself even though constantly annoyed with silly high school kids, envying them and wanting to yell at them

by saying, TAKE YOUR TIME!!!! ENJOY IT ALL BECAUSE IVE BEEN THERE AND ITS GOING TO BE RIPPED AWAY FROM YOUR LITTLE SOULS!! YES, i feel it needs to be screamed...but yet even then they probably still wont listen...I know I didn't...I'd laugh at those like parents that would tell me to enjoy my time..because i thought...pfffffft what do they know, they're old...Silly old me, silly old us, we were in for a shock... a high voltage one too.. :/

What happend to those lazy summer days, calm summer nights, semi long school days, detention rooms, lunch recess, locker bays, cafeteria spares, Pd days, summatives, field trips, pizza days, talk to the hand nonsense, cooties, love, crushes, evil teachers, tucking in bed, annoying parents, arthur marathons, rugrats, forts, snow man building, frisbee days, beep test, babysitters, hall passes, skipping, school dances, windowless schools, lunch trading, student of the month, talent shows, dripping ice cream cones, homemade lemonade stands, agendas, nsync, land before time, spice girls, backstreet boys, plastic backyard pools, four square, dreams of being a cowboy, superstar, hating brocolli, spinach and all those veggies, visiting mcdees and happy meals, double dutch, hhhaah remember sailor moom? pokemon? and digimon YTV?? furbies, assemblies, unairconditioned classrooms, no cell phone policies, parent teacher interviews...the list can go on and on...BUT...

WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO IT ALL? where did time take it all to? 

Now ALL we're left with is THE after math, we've moved away, grown up, some have died, some have changed, dissappeared, graduated, are in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years...we all never have time for eachother

And complain about the duties and responsibilies we have now....and whoes fault is it all?

For a while i was so angry...wanted to find someone to blame...most of us blame time for not having simply any time...and of course we should all be mad...! lets start a rebellion over time we say and its vicious nature...it robs us of our duty of life, living and enjoying...it's always chasing us and stressing us....Time, for the most of us has become our enemy... our despised foe...before long its going to have us doing things like getting married, having kids, a career and sooner or later, it'll wither us down into retirement and have us remenicing about our middle aged life, while we begin our old age years and watch our kids go through and discover the same fated cycle...time gahhh ughh makes me so darn mad...if only UGHH...!!!!!!!!!!!

But wait...you know, if you really think about it, time is not the enemy

Just stop and think...real hard...are you? Stop......

Now...THINK...!

No. time my friends is not the villain. It simply reminds...of how we as people have become ignorant and arrogant about time...

We are the ones to blame if we find ourselves running out of time...we go about our lives thinking that we have all the time in the world...and even im gulity of it...thninking that o well i'll do that tomorrow because i;ll have time...i'll say sorry tommorrow, because i dont have the time now, ill do this and that and blah blah later because its when we think we'll have the time...and the consequences? we find ourselves in a constant rush, in dumbstruck moments wondering where it all went, moments where friends and loved ones die and we regret this or that, or if only i took the time....

TIME. TIME. TIME. TIME. TIME. it's ticking and tocking, and yet we're missing the point, we're taking it for granted. TIME....

Is...therefore not the enemy...WE ARE.

TIME....look it up if you still don't get it....

LEARN it, LIVE it, TATTOO IT, do whatever you have to do to, i don't care.. just remember...

TIME. DOESN'T STOP for you, it never has, never will...

hmmm, i think it's time for us to all wake up...don't you?

Ironically enough, I just finished thinking, oh it's probably only 10 45, don't worry you got time and I look now and it's 11:55?

Clearly I've got room for improvement....we all do...