Childhood In Motion

Childhood is really something that happens quite fast. Everyone around you sees it except those of your same age or younger. My parents always tell me as they open up the scrapbook of when I was 5, "Oh those years went by too fast." Really to me they didn't seem so fast, but when your an adult with a full time job, doing the same thing day in and day out, everything that happens seems so much faster. A year may seem like a week or two, a decade may be a year, a childhood might be gone in an instant. When you do the same thing over and over again, things tend to slip by and you forget to stop and take a glance at life daily. As a parent of toddler, this would result in seeing them as two one day, and then not acknowledging their 8th birthday until the day of. This might be overexagerating but the point is there. Childhood is quite quick, and it is a short period of everyone's lives. If you live to be 100, your childhood (childhood being up until you are 18 and move out) would only be 20% of your life! After that there isn't much else happening. Eventually you settle down and your life flatlines into boring. That's just how it works. Then one day you have kids and basically live your old childhood through them, but this time it's even quicker. Childhood is far too fast, but it is made to be that way so you can always have something new to enjoy.