Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Has it been this long?

I remember the day we planted the willow trees in my front yard. The balmy breeze was a relief as the sun stared down through the humid air. One of those days where you'd rather walk or bike to the store than drive because the seats would burn your back.

Years have passed, and I've barely payed them any mind. The repetitive motions of departing quickly and collapsing into a ball of tired back-ache upon arrival have left me blind to their beauty.

For the first time in years, I walked around my front yard. So accustomed to the seclusion of the back during great times of beer and bonfires, the passing cars brought a feeling of contempt. Curses of living on a main road, curses of being born too late.

For the first time in years, I noticed that they were no longer just above my head. Their branches stretching high above the power lines, the ones closest to the sun keeping the others from fully developing.



My own quasi-reality has distracted me from the true reality enveloping me. This has gotten out of hand and gone on long enough.

I need to work on my priorities.

19 comments:

  1. I know exactly what you mean man, just posted this today. Return favour please.

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  2. The older you get the faster it goes apparently, and you do lose track of things sometimes! Not to worry though ;-)

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  3. I went to visit my parents house when i got out of college, it all felt great, until the phone rang and I put my hand into the wall about 6 inches above it, i had gotten bigger, it had stayed the same...

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  4. Weird where we get these revelations.

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  5. Yep, have a pine back home which I planted when I was 7. It's big now

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  6. Time does tend to slip by ones grasps. I'm glad I'm catching myself while I'm young and trying to work out my priorities now instead of later when it could be too late.

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  7. Yeh time flies like bombs through the air

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  8. well, I had the same thing happening.. planted an avocado tree since we moved in to our new house... 4 years ago..


    AND NOW WERE HAVING AVOCADO SHAKES AND DESERTS! YUMMY. :D

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  9. Time seems to go faster when you are not looking.

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  10. yeah in my garden i gots an 5m high apple tree and i can remember how i planted it years ago!

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  11. It's insane how fast time goes the older you get. I mean, I'm only 20 and it still seems really fast.

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  12. Time flies so much when you don't enjoy life now.
    bomb me

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  13. Same thing sort of happened with me an my dog (Though, I pay a lot of attention to her) One day she was a puppy and then boom, the next she was fully grown. At least, that's how it felt. Time flies...

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  14. love the way you write
    following

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