Where has the time gone? 20 years ago seems like yesterday.

Every 9/11. I was 18 years old, just moved to NY, and on my first FD. I volunteered to go into Manhattan. Twenty-third anniversary of that coming up. I made two phone calls. I can still hear my mother crying when I called her to tell her I love her before it was time to go. I can still hear me brother telling me he's proud of me.

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seems like yesterday

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Yes, it does.

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Is this what it is like to grow older?

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I can remember working all day in the heat, come home from work and push mow and weedeat the yard. Then play with the kids.


It’s not that I did it, many of you have or are doing it now, but how the heck was I able to. That was over 30 years ago and where did that energy go? I miss that alot….

2010 to now has been a blur.

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Anyone else just going about their merry way and hear a song or run into a person and you are instantly traveled into another life decades ago?

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This happens daily. It’s wonderful and depressing all at the same time.

How some people just wander through life and don’t have any emotion about the passage of time is strange to me.

Yes.. You reach a point and you see that life has gone by quickly. It’s been 21 years since I graduated from professional school. I can’t even remember most of the names of the people I spent 4 years with..
Now I see how college days and youth are very far behind me and everything has to be done to maintain and prevent.
I sure miss going for a run just because I needed to sweat. I really enjoy the history I have with my wife and watching my kids go out an try to make it but also equally miss being able to run fall down and laugh or eat a whole box of little Debbie’s with no change to my weight.

Absolutely. But when I think of how many friends and acquaintances that have unfortunately not made it that far, you have to be thankful you’ve seen those years.

I've been told that time passes faster as you get older. I guess it's true. It doesn't seem like I've been married for 25 years and the kids grew up in a flash. Part of it could be the faster pace of life today. I thought technology was supposed to make life easier, but to me it has only made it busier. I plan on retiring in 12 years. When I do, I'm slowing the pace down as much as I can.

I often listen to "best of the 90s" type playlists on my streaming music service, and there are sooo many songs that make me go "damn, I haven't heard this in ages, I can't believe this song is 30 years old"

I think when you get out of school time just starts flying by. Work and adult life is so monotonous that days melt into each other. I graduated college in 2012 and time has seemed to go faster and faster since then.

I turned 57 in March. I gotta tell ya, I don't feel it. Not even close.

Well, my body sometimes does. I'm very active and in good shape and that helps, but injuries take a lot longer to heal, and there's always a nagging pain somewhere. Very rarely do I feel unstoppable like I did in my 20s and 30s.

But I am a "young at heart" kinda guy who still looks of the childish humor in things and doesn't take anything too seriously. I have good genetics too. People think I'm in my early 40s.

But the time. MAN, it has flown. I remember the 80s like it was yesterday, I graduated high school in 85.

But the 90s are not quite as clear, college and first real job, marriage...

The 2000's to now, shite. WTF happened? That's 24 years and it seems like 4.

Not too long ago a buddy and I were listening to Night Moves by Bob Segar.

When the last verse finished he said. Damn, That last part. I never REALLY thought about what he was saying. It hits different now.

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I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

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Autumn is closing in fellas. Don't waste it.