Time

By: GregRapier Mood: full of life Date: 12/29/2007 13:11:46 Music: None

2007 is fading into history and will soon only be memories. It seems as though it was only a week or two a go that I was pondering the end of 2006. When I was a young boy (something else that feels it was only a few weeks ago) I worked with my dad at his service station. I can remember him saying to one of the guys that worked for him. That once you hit 21 that the clock starts running faster and faster. Now I was 11 or 12 then and because I was so old I was much wiser than my dad. I remember thinking has he gone crazy? A minute is a minute and an hour is and will always be an hour. Well there was a wise man there but it wasn’t me. Time we think of it as something that will always be there. We know it has an end in the lives of us humans. But some how we fool ourselves into thinking it’s a long way off.  We get all wrapped up in our day to day events.  Then one day you are setting there and thinking about all the things that your trip through life has taken you. The weddings and the friends, all the jobs, all those dreams places you have gone. The things you say to yourself that you wanted to do before you pack it in. The loves you had and the loves you lost. The things that if you had the chance to do over you would do differently and the things you wouldn’t change a thing. That maybe the reason we as humans mark time with new years. 365 days and then ask ourselves what did we do right and what did we not like and would change about ourselves.  All in all not a bad thing we by doing this don’t let ourselves get to far off track. Time, I think I will try to spend it by loving more and helping more the people that are part of my life. I will worry less about making it as an artist and just be an artist. I will create and paint and if I end up with to many painting I will give them a way so I will have more room to paint more. I am an artist and to paint is to live.