The Good Old Days

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them," Andy Bernard, played by Ed Helms, said on the good-bye of The Office.

Keane expressed to me that he figured out why life seems to be flying by so quickly.  He said it is because we are always waiting for the next big thing to happen, to occur, or to finally get here.  When we are young, we cannot wait to turn 16 to be able to drive, and then we want to turn 21 to legally have a drink.  We are anxious to graduate high school, go to college, and then quickly graduate from college.  We want to get a house, get married, and have kids.  We want to find that perfect job and be able to purchase our ideal car.

If we were able to take the time to look at where we are right now, we may realize that this is a time that we once were waiting for.  If we can learn to appreciate it for what it is, we may realize how much of life there is in the here-and-now.  We could then, possibly, fully grasp and enjoy the time we are in, and maybe life would not seem to fly by so fast.

These are the good old days.  Those days that we once hated and could not wait to get through (the ones with the homework assignments and relationship drama) are wonderfully pleasant when we look back on them now.  But years from now, we will be remembering these days. 

Embrace your life today.  Embrace the people in it, who you are, and what you have right now.