THE LOSS OF TIME

For the past several years I have felt that time is moving faster and that I am losing time. It feels like it was just yesterday when I was walking into high school for the first time but in actuality, it has been 3 years. I vividly remember starting this school year off just like it was last week but it was almost two months ago. Weeks and months have blurred together and have progressed faster than it ever has before. I believe the realization that soon I will graduate and become an adult is causing the feeling of time progressing faster than usual.

As a child I always wished for time to move faster so I could be “cool” like the older kids. Now that I am older, I wish the opposite, I wish for time to slow down. Soon, I will be 18 years old, a legal adult. I will be going out to college, getting a job, and living on my own. I wish that time would slow down so I could spend more time with my family. I wish time would slow down so that I could spend more time with my peers at school for I will not see a majority of them for the rest of my life. People that I have been going to school with for my entire life will become c omplete strangers in the next few years. I thought to myself, “It’s my senior year; I will have lots of time to spend with my friends,” but it’s quite the opposite. Everyone is so busy with either school or extracurriculars, and it gets hard to spend time with each other. As weeks go by I realize that these may be my final weeks hanging out and spending time with them before we all go our separate ways.

Although I feel that my time with everything I know is deteriorating, I still try to make do and block out any thoughts about time moving forward. Time moving forward is a natural part of life and everyone feels like they are losing time. Everybody grows old, nobody stays a child forever, even if we wished we could. Sooner or later the actions we take now will just become distant memories in the future. It is best to make the best of life right now as we are still young. Slow down time by doing things that make you happy and that you can remember in the future. Hangout with your friends, go to school events, and make the most out of your time.

Feeling as if you are losing time is a natural occurrence in everybody’s lives and it’s easy to worry about it, but just remember that everything will end up the way it does no matter what happens.

IZAIAH RETANA // STAFF