…Slightly ahead of schedule, aware that time will fly and the month will come to an end, sooner than I would think… Well, well, well… ahead of schedule has become “my famous last words” as November has ended and my blog post has not made much progress! This has been the trend over this year: no time left, deadline is over! Happy to say that I will be able to meet my target of ten blog posts in 2025, this one is number nine, only one more to go. Which I will be able to squeeze in before 2025 expires, fingers and toes crossed! Still not sure about my plans for next year, at the moment I am considering the option of going with the flow, although this approach may be too risky. When it comes to writing the “what will be, will be” seems not to work well for me. Planning, scheduling and setting up deadlines suits me better. So probably better to stick to some sort of a plan otherwise 2026 may end up being very unproductive when it comes to writing.
…Planning, scheduling and setting up deadlines suits me better…
It is a miserable evening here, damp and cold, but surprisingly quiet, the calm before the storm. The darkness of winter is surrounding us with a suffocating insistence. Some would say it is not officially winter as it will start on the 21st of December however the meteorological winter started on 1 December. The good news is that the countdown to the shortest day of the year has started, evenings will soon be longer as a guiding light towards Imbolc My usual candle is flickering away together with a few Christmas ornaments to brighten up the room, a cupán tae badly needed, blanket over my knees, no music on as I need full on concentration to make sure I get this blog post published today. Chief Superintendent Smudge the Cat is sleeping next to me; I will not dare to wake her up though, as she will surely give me one of her looks for being so late on my blog post (she knows I am well behind schedule, lol). Let’s get down to business before time flies again…
I had in mind a different topic for my November edition, but the fact that I missed my deadline, and it is already December, has made me change my mind. Time flies could be taken as carpe diem, which would be perfectly right. However, the focus of this blog post is going to be the fact that time actually flies, meaning that everything happens in a blink of an eye, that yesterday becomes “months ago” without even realising about it, that what seems to have happened last year is more likely to have been ten years ago! It feels like yesterday when we were welcoming the new year, hard to take in that nearly twelve months have gone by and a new one is about to start. One gets some sort of a shock when flipping the calendar page to the next month, which happens to be December: holy molly where have the other eleven months gone? Someone must have made a mistake when turning the pages! I find it hard to get my head around that 2025 is nearly over: another year gone!
I thought light was the one travelling the fastest, although over the last few years I have started to doubt this theory. It feels to me that time is now flying faster and faster, quicker and quicker, speedier and speedier; as if time has become a passenger on a high speed train. One minute you wake up to a brand new year, and a thousandth of a second later, you are hanging on the edge of the very same year desperately trying to keep it going. One minute you open your eyes to a new decade, and a thousandth of a second later, you are hopelessly attempting to prevent it from ending. One minute you open the door to a big birthday, and a thousandth of a second later, you are despairingly praying for the next one to be delayed.
…I do feel sometimes that life itself has reached hypersonic speed levels…
I do feel sometimes that life itself has reached hypersonic speed levels. “I thought it was only a few months ago, when in fact it was a few years ago”, has somehow turned into a worrying trend in my existence. Years seem to be piling up in the chest called “yesterday”, memories seem to be adding pages to a book called “the day before yesterday”; tears and laughter seem to be filling up a jar called “yesterday is well gone”. It was only a few weeks ago when plans were made for a long weekend, lamentably it will soon be too far away and a blurred vision to recall. It was only a couple of months ago when we were getting ready to get on a plane to visit family and friends, unfortunately it will soon be a long time ago. It was only last year when that one of my besties passed away, sadly it will soon be many years ago. Because time simply flies!
…If I daydream for a couple of minutes, it feels like another week is gone…
I am not sure if it is because I am getting older as they say, or because it is the post Covid effect as we lost nearly a year, or because someone up there keeps putting their foot down on the accelerator of the train called life. What I know is that days are vanishing away faster than ever, that months are disappearing quicker than ever, that years are evaporating speedier than ever! If I get distracted for just a simple second, it feels like another year is after passing by. If I daydream for a couple of minutes, it feels like another week is gone. If I disconnect for a while, it feels like yesterday already.
Time simply flies! Try to keep yourself grounded, make sure you focus on the here and now, ensure you seize every single moment. Because in the blink of an eye, in a fraction of a second, in a heartbeat, now will become a long time ago!
Jay Cee Moon ©
…in the blink of an eye,
in a fraction of a second,
in a heartbeat,
now will become a long time ago!…
Jaycee Moon 