The other day I talked about when I did my yard on my 19th birthday.
First year at Uni.
Blocks of time around those ages are funny things, aren’t they?
I was at Uni for three years.
Actually there for just over 2 when you factor out holidays.
I’ll have lived in Macc for 9 years this summer.
3 or4 times as long as I was at Uni.
Which blows my mind – Uni, Sixth Form and other periods of time around that age seem so much longer than they actually were.
Time definitely seems to speed up, the older you get, doesn’t it?
The last two years are a strange combination of ‘dragged’ and ‘flown by’.
Pretty boring in places.
But can it really be two years next month since that first lockdown?
As we get older I think that blocks of time are a smaller proportion of our lives.
The last two years are 5% of my life.
At 18 they were 11%.
More like 20% of the life I could remember clearly.
And less changes, doesn’t it?
From 18 to 28 I went from living with my parents to Uni to my own place to making my own way in the world to marrying and having my first child.
I lived in 9 different houses and had a similar number of cars.
The last 10 years have been moving from three kids to four, two house moves, the same car for nearly 7 years now and remarrying.
So much great fun and amazing memories in there, of course.
But definitely less ‘change’.
And, from talking to others over the years, I think we all feel the same, don’t we?
Time is ‘speeding up’.
How quickly 5 or 10 years time is going to come round feels a concern rather than not even being on our radar as was once the case.
So, if anything, we could argue the benefit of the slower changes we could make are more worth doing now than ever before.
Tell 18 year old you that a change now will lead to a different position in a year or three and you’d probably switch off, yeah?
The next year or three are going to go past even faster than the last ones so the changes now are even more beneficial.
We’re often put off by the ‘slowness’ of progress.
How long it takes to get the weight off.
Or to have more energy and feel better.
Which we get.
We really do.
But, short of dying, we’re getting to a year or three down the line.
We can either have done the things that need to be done and be in a better position when that times comes round surprisingly quickly.
Or we can have not done them and be where we are now that we’re not happy with.
Or, more likely, have slipped backwards even further.
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Much love,
Jon ‘Gonzalez’ Hall
P.S. This blog took a wild turn mid way through. It was going to be about the biggest film from Q1 in 1999. That’s coming tomorrow now!
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