"Time Flies"

It just amazes me actually.  I can still remember as a young teenager thinking that adulthood was so very far away.  Five years seemed an eternity, and a lifetime seemed infinite.  Why does that change with age?  I wish I knew, because then  perhaps I could recapture that "infinite" feeling.  Or is that even the best thing?  Maybe it is more important to focus on getting a "mortality" feeling to sink in?  At least to the point that one truly focuses on what's important every day.

Or then again, like most things, maybe a little of each is called for.  To imagine life and all it's possibilities still stretching ahead of you, combined with a healthy respect for the fact that it's still gonna end sometime.

I think my current Ironman endeavour may make a good metaphor for the passing of the years.   I started the current blog, what, a couple of weeks ago, and my journey has just begun.  Tons of time to enjoy the experience and get the fulfillment I search for.  Well actually this is day 47, and the original 12 months is already down to 10 1/2!!  That quickly puts a perspective on it for me.  Best enjoy the day I guess....oh and tomorrow too!

I did have a positive training day, motivated by my very own "priorities" post of yesterday.  I got to the pool for a bit, and I got my bike on the trainer downstairs.  I actually enjoyed both workouts, and I know it was because I had my head on straight.  I was spending time doing those things that I truly wanted to be doing.

And one last thing.  Since Cory can't seem to post on the blog I will add an insult on her behalf.  I know you all miss her sharp wit and so here's what I thought she may say if she had the chance. 

"I think that you were right way back then Peter.  Adulthood was, and still is, so very far away for you"

Swim 1000 metres,  45 mins computrainer.

“Eternity is really long, especially near the end"---Woody Allen

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."---Henry David Thoreau

....and I really, really like both of these.  I wish I has such thoughts and words....

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."---William Blake

"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."---Thomas Edison

Love
Peter