Time Flies...

Does time really fly by? Sometimes time seems to fly by, like looking back on the first three years of high school. The sad part is not remembering some things. But the greatest feeling is when one little thing reminds you of something from long ago. Usually the thoughts that I think back to are funny times where something had happened and it faded away until it was brought up some number of years later.

Is there enough time to enjoy life? Obviously and obviously not. In our lifetimes most of us will go through life changing experiences and we will also have times in life that we wish we could go back and change. Which brings up the talk of regret, and while life may be "short" it is ten times shorter when living with regret. How can someone take advantage of everything in front of them when they are caught turned around, dwelling on the past? They can't. And even in some case those who face the future miss some opportunities. Life gives us many things to be happy about, and life is too short to experience everything. Plain and simple. It doesn't matter if I live to be 120 years old I will miss out on something. The key though, is making the most of what you do have.
 Do we do too much? My answers is yes and no. I am a person involved in many extracurricular activities and sometimes I do wish I could just take a day off. But then on days off I get bored... So is it better to load up on activities and sometimes wish for a break or just chill and look for one small thing to do to fill time? I wish I had the answer to that question because it would really help me out. As far as activities go I hope my children try every sport possible because I want them to find the one that truly makes them happy, I also hope that when they find that sport that I can be 100% behind them. I know right now it is easy to say that I would, but in reality I don't know what I am going to do if my son doesn't like sports. But I will have to be okay with whatever he chooses to do.
Because in hindsight, life is approximately 85 years long, the first 3 of which are basically a waste (except for cute pictures to look back on yeas later.) Which leaves us with around 718,320 hours of life left to live out. Once you factor in what part is spent sleeping we find that we now have 448,950 hours left. School takes up at least 13,000 hours of that. Some large numbers to look at, but when I am old I hope to look back and say that I spent those four hundred some thousand hours as best I could.