Where the Hell do the Years go?

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On the road....
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
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Time - Pink Floyd. One of my favourite tracks from "Dark Side of the Moon", an album about life......

The part in particular thats struck a note with me (pardon the pun) is the bit in bold only in my case, its not 10 years its 13!

My daughter is 13 on Tuesday, it feels like yesterday that she was a baby in nappies.

So, blink and you miss it. Time marches relentlessly on.... Make the most of it whilst its there I guess.

I'm not quite sure why I suddenly feel this way - perhaps the realisation my baby is soon to be a teenager is bringing home to me the fact that I'm mortal and my time here is limited and fast diminishing?

Discuss. :)
 
I know what you mean. I just turned 21 (still young I know) but I still feel like I'm 17 and little time has passed since then!
 
When you're young, say 5, a year is 1/5 of your life and thus a fair chunk. As the years roll on, a year becomes a smaller fraction of your life. I am 42, so a year is 1/42, and they shoot by in no time. ffs, it was Christmas a few days ago and now it's almost upon us again :eek:
 
God, it will soon be Christmas again, how time flies, isn't it depressing.
 
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I feel exactly the same and i'm only 25.

Its come to the point now where the enemy wants a child and marriage. I keep on thinking we are still in the honeymoon period of our relationship. It has been 4 years! 4 bloody years! where and how did they happen? I feel like i'm 18 still, I can't look after a child!
 
I understand now when I think back to listening to older relatives saying that although they were 60, they still felt like they were 18 or 21.
 
I was having this conversation with some of the older guys at work and they were telling me how they didn't feel any different at 40 odd than they did at 20.

I'm only 22 but when people ask me my age sometimes I have to think about for a second.

It's crazy how quickly the last 4 years have gone, I blame work personally as you spend 5 out of 7 days just waiting for the weekend. :(
 
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It's crazy how quickly the last 4 years have gone, I blame work personally as you spend 5 out of 7 days just waiting for the weekend. :(
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Just keep in shape feller then when you hit your mid/late 30's and all your mates are doing uncle fester impressions you still have something to smile about ;), my hairless over weight mates hate me lmao.
 
I had this thought the other day funnily enough. I've never actually thought much about my age, it came up in conversation the other day where I said "Get away man, I'm only 52..."

I think it took a few seconds to actually sink in what I'd just said. I remember my 20s like they were yesterday.
 
I'm 36 in November and although I feel young everyone else seems to feel the need to "act their age" so slowly I am moving towards pipe and slippers and I ****ing hate it.
Give me some energetic friends who want to do more than just go for a walk or watch a movie.
Life feels boring!
On top of that, I find my self sitting here typing this **** instead of going out and enjoying the world.
The internet is like a drug. I wish I never bought a computer to be honest. There is so much to life OUTSIDE....
 
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