I served a guy at work yesterday...
Posted 10-24-2010 at 10:12 PM by Spudfish93
He commented upon how he has a child and how quickly he grew, then he told me his friend was expecting his first child and that he should appreciate the time while it lasted, then conveyed that same message to me for the future.
This started me thinking, he was a child once, we all were.
And now he's a parent with children of his own saying what all our parents say.
He must've grown pretty damn quickly.
So I started watching Bambi last night, a film I haven't seen since before I could remember, and yet, I see various parts and start remembering it all, waking up for Saturday shows, playing with friends, sitting out until the sun set.
Then it struck me, where have the last 8 years of my life gone?
8 years, 8 [bleep]ing years of my life have breezed past without me noticing, and now look, I'm not even a year away from being 18, I look in the mirror and do not recognize myself, I haven't seen nor heard from many of my childhood friends in years, my childhood shows have long since been taken down and replaced, I go past my old primary school every now and then, I see kids who do all the same [bleep] I did.
and then it hit me like a train wreck, how insignificant it all is, I mean think about it, from the Hospital to the Grave, all we do is pass time, and as we get older, we get better at it.
Life is so short and I fear the best part of it has already ended before it's really begun.
What I wouldn't give, WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE, to live my childhood over, there'd be so much I'd change, things to fix, and more things to appreciate but it's all over now.
Just some distant memory to be revisited frequently on sleepless nights.
8 years went by so quickly, if the next 9 8 years go past just as quickly I'd be dead before I even knew where I stood.
What will I accomplish, will I be remembered.
Life is short.
Really short.
So get off your computers, get off your games, get out there and appreciate the true beauty of the world before it's taken away from you and is too late.
Any kids on here, enjoy your time, enjoy your school and work hard.
This is your only opportunity to get it right, don't **** it up like I did.
This started me thinking, he was a child once, we all were.
And now he's a parent with children of his own saying what all our parents say.
He must've grown pretty damn quickly.
So I started watching Bambi last night, a film I haven't seen since before I could remember, and yet, I see various parts and start remembering it all, waking up for Saturday shows, playing with friends, sitting out until the sun set.
Then it struck me, where have the last 8 years of my life gone?
8 years, 8 [bleep]ing years of my life have breezed past without me noticing, and now look, I'm not even a year away from being 18, I look in the mirror and do not recognize myself, I haven't seen nor heard from many of my childhood friends in years, my childhood shows have long since been taken down and replaced, I go past my old primary school every now and then, I see kids who do all the same [bleep] I did.
and then it hit me like a train wreck, how insignificant it all is, I mean think about it, from the Hospital to the Grave, all we do is pass time, and as we get older, we get better at it.
Life is so short and I fear the best part of it has already ended before it's really begun.
What I wouldn't give, WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE, to live my childhood over, there'd be so much I'd change, things to fix, and more things to appreciate but it's all over now.
Just some distant memory to be revisited frequently on sleepless nights.
8 years went by so quickly, if the next 9 8 years go past just as quickly I'd be dead before I even knew where I stood.
What will I accomplish, will I be remembered.
Life is short.
Really short.
So get off your computers, get off your games, get out there and appreciate the true beauty of the world before it's taken away from you and is too late.
Any kids on here, enjoy your time, enjoy your school and work hard.
This is your only opportunity to get it right, don't **** it up like I did.
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You're scaring me. Well said.Posted 10-27-2010 at 01:11 AM by Angry Ancestor 
