Miles, Clocks, and Calenders...nothing slows down time

This morning I read a motivational article in Runner's World that just really hit the nail on the head for my feelings lately. The article was called The Long and the Short of it. It talks about how time is tricky....the days are sometimes long but the years are short. So true.

This is especially true for running of course as you slog your legs through another heinous mile feeling like you have bricks tied to your shoes sometimes but then looking at your log book to see that you have run hundreds of miles in a year, or like me realize this is my third season of running!



The tricky time phenomenon is also quite true of life though. In just 21 days I graduate...it is sad to think how fast the last three years of school has gone. Even stranger is thinking about how fast the past TEN years has gone...living in my house on Gunson Street in EL across the parking lot from Courtney and Ashley seems not so long ago but it was 8 years ago!

I have been feeling like i am trying to slow down time but time as some mean spirited trick speeds up instead. If only I could make it conform to my ideas of how the time line should go...if time keeps going at this rate I am afraid I wont get a chance to do all that I want to do and I think I am a person who gets a lot done. Yet, here I am 17 months from turning 30 years old and unmarried, no kids, no house, no dog. When will it all fall into place? I think I need to reanalyze how I am approaching fulfillment of my priorities before another ten years has flown by without my permission!

On a thankful note. I should be thankful for all that I HAVE achieved in the past few years:

Skiied lots with really amazing people
Made lasting relationships with some of the most wonderful people on this Earth
Ran over 791 miles
Learned many valuable life lessons about men, money, and malapropisms
Lived in Washington and Montana
Gone on Amazing backpacking vacations in Montana and Alaska
Finished 4 half marathons
Enjoyed Fantastic times in nursing school
Made a huge and great decision to move close to family in ABQ
and of course being days away from achieving my biggest goal of all: my BSN degree