Exponential Time

When I was a child, it seemed like time couldn't pass by fast enough. As I neared the age of independence, I enjoyed so many things that I didn't usually want time to fly. It was the waiting for things like finals to be over, vacations to arrive, or hearing from a potential employer that made me wish for time to hurry up.

As my children came along and grew up, time flowed more or less like a midsummer river: moving along at a regular pace, with periods of quicker flow related to episodes of stress, good or bad. It wasn't until my grown children no longer lived with me that I realized the exponential nature of the speeding stream of time. They have become parents, and their rivers of time flow much more quickly that mine did as they were growing up. Then, for the most part, I only had to juggle what happened at home, because I didn't work full-time until the youngest was in school all day. Now, both my own children and their spouses work long hours, and must plan family time around their jobs.

So now, for me, another milestone in time reached much too quickly: my first grandchild is a year old today! How in the world could the past year have flown by so fast?!? Not just exponential -- the rate of time flow has to have accelerated at a factorial rate!

Happy Birthday Boy