Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    This comic reminds me of the same gripe I had with the movie Click.

    The message seems to be “Life is short and precious, so appreciate every moment, because it’ll be over before you know it.” Which sounds nice, and sweet, and thoughtful, and is complete and utter horse shit.

    There are times when life just plain sucks. When it’s boring or tedious or even torturous, and it would be 100% worth skipping if you could. When you have a headache at the airport and have just found out your flight has been delayed by 3 hours. When your tooth cracks at 4am and you’re waiting for hours in agony until a dentist opens up. When you finished a long work day and just want to get home and collapse, only to find the roads are blocked in a massive traffic jam. These are not fulfilling experiences. You do not learn or grow in any way, except to become more tolerant to enduring unfulfilling experiences. Of course it would be better if you could skip those things!

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    1·
    43 minutes ago

    I wrote myself off as dead at 14, after having a look at my situation. Was not too far off, surprised I ever got a job or lived to 30

  • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 hour ago

    What if you’re actually on your deathbed and this moment is just your “life flashes before your eyes”, but in slow-mo? 🤔

    Anyways, childhood was weird to think about, I could almost remember the exact moment, I feel like I was there, I could imagine being there right now, but the moment is already gone, just a memory. 😥

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    10 hours ago

    My younger coworkers keep saying on Mondays, “i wish it was friday already!”

    I told them they’ll wish for that time back someday…

    and then they called me grandpa and i gave them a werthers original, and everyone stood up and clapped

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    7·
    8 hours ago

    For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

    —Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)

  • Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    There was an Adam Sandler movie about this. “Click”? Saw it once. Couldn’t again. Not because I don’t like most of his movies. This one just ended up being too sad.

    • 46_and_2@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      It’s actually the only one of his movies that I somewhat regularly come back to think about. Not to slag his more serious or funnier movies, but something with the remote fast-forward analogy, and how often I wish I could skip or speed over a real-life situation- it really hit close to home, especially the illustrated consequences of that.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    15 hours ago

    When I was in the 8th grade, I distinctly remember one day getting off the bus and making my way to homeroom, and a thought occurred to me: “I still have four more years of school before I graduate. I’ll never make it!”

    I’m typing this approximately 35 years later. I never did make it through high school; I dropped out three times (the third time the school asked that I not come back). Ironically, I graduated with my masters last year.

    ~Talk about a wild ride.~

  • sartalon@lemmy.world
    23·
    13 hours ago

    Time is slower when you are young. Summers lasted forever. Now I blink my eyes and my toddlers are almost in high school.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.org
      8·
      8 hours ago

      Physiologically it’s because the brain is learning more stuff when you’re young. The new experiences stretch the passage of time. The inverse is true when you get older because the brain doesn’t have to assimilate as much. You can kind of get some of that feeling back by learning new stuff, like picking up an instrument, or learning a new language etc.

      • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        54 minutes ago

        Probably why I feel like I experience the biggest “time dilation” during childhood after moving to the United States. New Language, new environment. So many different cultures, also around this time, my brain is more developed to be able to remember more. Free libraries, and most importantly, free access to the open internet, stuff that my previous country didn’t have, didn’t even have internet before. Like the world just felt bigger after that plane ride.

        I remember reading some kids book about science and plants and space, now I could just “look it up” on the internet. Anything you wanted to see. Sooo many planets and space facts that couldn’t be found in one tiny book lol.

        So many memories…

        Now I feel like I just seen all of the interesting movies and TV. Nothing is new… except deteriorating politics 🤷‍♂️

      • frank@sopuli.xyz
        8·
        7 hours ago

        I think this is super true. We moved across the pond and are learning a new language, new culture, everything. Time feels SO slow. This year has been a decade.

        It’s been hard, but also that part has been cool and a good reminder that it doesn’t always have to be that way

  • Thunderwolf@lemmy.world
    34·
    16 hours ago

    The song is “Time” by Pink Floyd for anyone that doesn’t get the reference. If you like that song, Dark Side of the Moon is definitely worth a listen

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 hours ago

    there was a story I heard as a child.

    a boy was always impatient and didn’t want to wait for anything. an imp gifted him a ball of yarn and told him to pull the loose end and time would skip depending on how much he pulled out.

    as you can imagine things didn’t go well for the boy.