Time Keeps on Slippin’…
Do you remember the song "Fly Like an Eagle" by the Steve Miller Band? I woke up with a start this morning when I realized that today is Friday AND it’s already the end of June! I swear that yesterday was Monday and last week, I scheduled all my bills to be paid online. Anyway, after this disturbing realization, the song "Fly Like an Eagle" came to mind. The lyrics start with "Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future." I never knew what that meant until this morning. (I guess I’m just slow that way sometimes.)
It seems like time passes by faster the older and busier you get. It’s kinda crazy! I remember chatting about this very subject several years ago with my Dad and Grandpa. My Dad reinforced my fears that time felt like it passed faster than usual. My Grandpa assured me that it would continue to speed past me at faster rates every year. He was in his late 80s when we had this discussion and he told me that each month felt more like one day to him. Scary!
I used to think it was lack of caring, but I can definitely appreciate how people get stuck in certain fashion fads or stuck in a decade, if you will. If time passes by faster with each passing year, you might wake up and be in a new decade, right? Thank goodness for magazines and fashion blogs! Shopping frequently helps keep you up to date as well. But imagine the poor souls that stay at home all the time and don’t go shopping. How would they ever keep up?
If you can’t keep up with fashion, how would you ever keep up to date with hair and makeup? They seem like such subtle things, right? But really, think about it, in the 70s it was all about blue eyeshadow and long, straight hair or oversized afros. In the 80s, it was all about multi-colored eyeshadows (lots of colors at one time) and big permed hair with big poofy bangs! What was big in the 90s? Man, I lived it but I don’t remember anything really distinctive besides grunge (not a look I went for, BTW). Makeup and hair moved toward a more natural look for most of us though. You get the idea, right?
If you are stuck in a particular decade or if you’re looking for a costume, you can probably find what you’re looking for here:
So, am I the only one who feels like time keeps on slippin’? It’s kind of freaking me out to be perfectly honest. I just can’t keep up with the days, the weeks, and the months. Before I know it, I won’t be able to keep up with the years! Good grief!
Happy Searching/Shopping,
Payton
I have a theory that increments of time are actually getting more compressed! So a second, though our tools (watches, clocks, and so forth) would still measure the same because they are in this time that we are experiencing (like we and the tools are in the same bubble), but the seconds themselves are actually getting smaller. This would also explain why time seems to go faster as you get older… no matter when you are born, time is getting increasingly compressed, so your viewpoint that it is not staying the same would be consistent with reality no matter when you were born.
Kinda crazy but interesting to think about ! BTW, I bought flare pants last week !