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Time passing way too fast

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@kjoed53 So true! I can remember as children how time could pass so slowly when we were excited about something and had to wait. Or when we were occasionally bored during school holidays. Time sure could creep and how we wished it would move faster. Then decades of time moving at the speed of light as I went through university, joined the work force etc. Never enough time in the day. It often felt like being on a hamster wheel and things I loved doing like distance running, travelling etc stopped and became something I’d do again when I had time. An assumption there would be oodles of time.

Then I got stage 4 incurable cancer in my 50’s that will end my life sooner rather than later. Part of dealing with it has been retiring early and slowing down to appreciate time in each day. It has been wonderful! Sad that it took something like cancer to slow me down, slow time down and encourage me to savour the time in a day.

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I'm sorry that you are going through this at such a young age. It's so difficult to imagine not having unlimited tomorrows when we're young. We're taught as children to plan for tomorrow in so many ways, and correctly so. Seldom are we taught to balance the gift of the present with the promise of the future though. It sounds like you have a positive mindset given your circumstances. Please keep in mind that no one can predict the future and no one can promise anything about tomorrow, any tomorrow. No one can predict when we will begin our next chapter. Continue to enjoy each day as it comes to you. Sometimes we have more time than we think we may have, sometimes less but no one on earth can mark our calendar for any future event with any degree of certainty. I pray that you will have many more quality tomorrows than anyone predicts.