Time Marches On

The older we get the more real we understand the pace of time. It goes quicker and quicker. Seemingly the other day I was 52, then 62, and now 81. It doesn’t seem possible. So much has happened in the passage of those years.

I know you understand this. I mention it because it is very true and my own experience continues to amaze me of its reality, its truth.

There is something else related to this. With the passage of time comes a better understanding of things and concepts that were mysteries to us in the past. We truly do gather more understanding. It is logical. Things make more sense.

Another point to be made, with more understanding we wonder why things are the way they are, and how to change results. Wisdom comes from this work, this pondering. It is not automatic. It is not all logical because the combinations and permutations of facts and events are always variable and have multiple possible outcomes. Wisdom ferrets out the important differences and still attempts to make sense of it all. Wisdom comes, however, with time and more experience.

But first we must be observant. We must be disciplined in this observance. And then ponder.

Life is not simple. It is very complex. Its interactiveness with everything makes complexity happen, and ever changing, even as we analyze it. Whew! No wonder understanding is hard to come by, and takes so much time.

Just the other day we watched snow and ice melt into spring. Then, in fits and starts, we observed daily temperatures moving up and down promising warmth and the coming of summer. Today, August 19, 2024, summer nears its end as we prepare to welcome fall. Shocking!

The cicadas have come and gone. News cycles, too, have arrived as expected, run their course and are now into new topics and surprises. The Republican convention has happened, and they have their candidate. The Democrats started their convention and the presumed candidates for president and vice president have been selected. Now comes making that official. Soon after, however, election day will be with us and campaigning will cease for a little while.

Then we will be in full preparation for Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays. Another year will end, and a new one will begin. The passage of time is constant. It has a tempo and none of us can stop it. Or change its speed.

That is logic. The rest is understanding. A little bit of it will yield smaller bit of wisdom. Then, as time marches on, we have to learn how to use that wisdom and apply it.

So much to do!

August 23, 2024


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