Time is on my side, yes it is

Lately, I have noticed time as something that has passed instead of something endless. When you are younger, you can't relate to time because you haven't really experienced its consequences yet. You see what it can do. You know its the reason you house needs painted every few years or your grass needs mowed. You know its the reason your hair grows or your wrinkles deepen. You know its helped you gain friends and lose them.

You don't see any of these things as they are happening. You only notice once they have finished. This is the paradox. You understand time is changing things but you can never see exactly how.

When you are young, time is on your side and has yet to turn against you. It makes you think it will last forever, and you will always be young. Youth, as many will argue, is a state-of-mind. I think I disagree. Your youth disappears, usually when you are not looking. Someday you might wake up and wonder where it went and how long it has been gone. Or maybe you never have that moment of longing. Instead, you fabricate a version of youth in your head using left over pieces and stitch them together with callowness and self-delusion.

Of course, you can stay young by acting young, but you should never forget, it is just that, acting.