Oh How the Years go by

As a new day began, my thoughts began to wonder back to the time when I was a little girl. The world seemed to be simpler then; living day to day with no worries in the world. I played hard and got into more trouble than I probably should have...but life went on. It seemed like life would be like that forever; the future so far away that is was almost unreachable. Little did I know that it would fly by and that the 'future' was no future at all, but the life I lived each and every day.

I've been pondering a lot lately about time and where it all has gone. I can't believe I have come so far. I never dreamed I would be this old, attend high school, drive a car, or have a job. It seemed that only other people would get that far, and that I, being young and naive, would stay a child forever. But I wake up everyday to a new day and smell the fresh scent of reality, and the fact that I am, indeed, living the life I never thought I would.

In coming to understand the fact that I'm living in the here and now, I have learned something very important: Life travels faster than anything in this world, and if we don't take advantage of every moment of every day, we will wonder where those precious days, hours, minutes, and seconds have disappeared to. I must live everyday as if it were my last, and let every person in my life know how much they mean to me. I can't regret choices, actions, or roads taken, because at one point, it was exactly what I wanted. Living in the past isn't worth the waste of time, for when we finally make it back to the present, it will have been long gone. I must Live for today!