tic toc, tic toc

If you've ever been to my parents house, you will within 10 minutes become fully aware of the many clocks that are throughout the house (I still can't figure out why more than one of the clocks are 10-15 minutes fast).

My neice when visitng quickly developed a facination the the chiming of the time. It was one of the first 'words' she spoke. tic toc tic toc.... It never failed she would drop whatever she was in the middle of and point grunt and motion towards the grandfather clock saying tic toc tic toc wanting to be near it. Any clock face she would see she would immediately note the presence of the 'tic toc'. (on a side note it was great that the times were all screwed up on the clocks as it was guarenteed that it would only be around 10 minutes till she would stop crying in the case of a mishap til she would forget that she fell and become excited again).

That's all 6 months ago now. Like most things time flies, things change. The facination with the clocks has past.

Why is it that things go by so quickly. Why is it that we rush through things so quickly, what is so important?

I remember being younger and the days would last for what seemed forever and the weeks would last and last, and oh summer it felt longer than the time spent in the classroom.

How has all that changed? How is it now that all the sudden i've been living on my own for over 6 years?

It's crazy that its already Q4 06. now don't get me wrong. This is the best and i mean BEST time of year. If you know me you know I love autumn. It's just scary

A friend posted, pondering why we settle for things less than our dreams, and why is it we don't hold out for what we truely want? I think it's the fleeting of time. We all know what we want(for the most part atleast) and all that we can do is hope that in the future it will cross into our paths. As we age time keeps speeding up as we fill our lives with more and more 'stuff'. The thing about life is that while we live it day to day we understand it only when we can look back and take it all in.

I think that as we are living and as life is accelerating past us we start to look back and we start to get into the compromise. We get impatient with our lifes, our friends, our family, and with God. We selfishly grab at what it there in the moment, forgoing patience and missing out on our dreams.

I am a firm believer in that with time things make themselves out, and we can come to realize our aspirations.

In small group we have started in a group discussion of a book that made a lot of sense to me back when I moved out on my own. Dangerous Wonder is quite a lite read, but its message came to me as a needed change. I don't really feel i should go into a review of the book here, rather I recommend you pick up a copy and read through it.

It truely is a tragedy when we let life get in the way of living life.

I'm ready for November and I'm ready for a relaxation from the 'go go go'.

I hope all is well with you all, and I hope some of this made some sense. Not much of a point in the whole post I had planned out and I don't think it transcribed well.