Mission: Hourglass half-full?

One thing about throwing yourself into work and other (more fun) activities, is that when you give yourself a chance to breathe and step back from your surroundings, you may find that the scenery has changed quite a bit.  Today, I was updating my calendar with activities for the next couple of months and was thoroughly confused when I saw that it was June 16.  June 16? I could have sworn it was May just yesterday!  It's such a cliché to ask where all the time has gone but, um...really?  Mid-June already?

Time is tricky; sometimes, two weeks can feel like two seconds, other times, one week can seem like one year.  It's funny how you can be in a pretty set routine for a long while, a few months even, and then you go a few days doing something different and then that becomes the norm.  What felt so natural a couple of weeks ago now seems completely alien to me.  How can someone go months living a certain way and then just a week later be doing something different?  Perhaps it's because this is how it was initially?  Is that why it was a little easy to adapt to the changes?

Ayiyi, this is why I'm no good at Philosophy and the like: too many theoretical stuff, not enough practical.  Too many questions, not enough answers.  Too many intangibilities, not enough concrete.

I love my calendar for the very physicality of it.  My life is laid out for me in thirty (or 31 or 28 and sometimes 29!), tiny boxes and I can see where I'm going tomorrow and I can see where I was yesterday.  I can see the evidence that time has indeed not skipped a beat and I haven't lost one or two weeks without my knowledge.  I can see that there's no way I will be propelled months into the future without my permission.

I can also see that this week will be one heck of a week, as will the next, and then again the next.  So you see, there's really no way I can miss out on anything.

tick tock.