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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
When I was in the 8th grade, I distinctly remember one day getting off the bus and making my way to homeroom, and a thought occurred to me: “I still have four more years of school before I graduate. I’ll never make it!”
I’m typing this approximately 35 years later. I never did make it through high school; I dropped out three times (the third time the school asked that I not come back). Ironically, I graduated with my masters last year.
~Talk about a wild ride.~
Huge congratulations.
The song is "Time" by Pink Floyd for anyone that doesn't get the reference. If you like that song, Dark Side of the Moon is definitely worth a listen
This was my peak 'life sucks and I'm just slowly dying' song as a very young adult, drinking Screech alone in my parent's basement and contemplating all sorts of dismal stuff.
Fantastic song, but if I find myself listening to it on repeat in the near future it's straight to the shrink. Gotta fire your own damn starting gun before you lose the strength to pull the trigger.
My younger coworkers keep saying on Mondays, "i wish it was friday already!"
I told them they'll wish for that time back someday...
and then they called me grandpa and i gave them a werthers original, and everyone stood up and clapped
Time is slower when you are young. Summers lasted forever. Now I blink my eyes and my toddlers are almost in high school.
Physiologically it's because the brain is learning more stuff when you're young. The new experiences stretch the passage of time. The inverse is true when you get older because the brain doesn't have to assimilate as much. You can kind of get some of that feeling back by learning new stuff, like picking up an instrument, or learning a new language etc.
I think this is super true. We moved across the pond and are learning a new language, new culture, everything. Time feels SO slow. This year has been a decade.
It's been hard, but also that part has been cool and a good reminder that it doesn't always have to be that way
Probably why I feel like I experience the biggest "time dilation" during childhood after moving to the United States. New Language, new environment. So many different cultures, also around this time, my brain is more developed to be able to remember more. Free libraries, and most importantly, free access to the open internet, stuff that my previous country didn't have, didn't even have internet before. Like the world just felt bigger after that plane ride.
I remember reading some kids book about science and plants and space, now I could just "look it up" on the internet. Anything you wanted to see. Sooo many planets and space facts that couldn't be found in one tiny book lol.
So many memories...
Now I feel like I just seen all of the interesting movies and TV. Nothing is new... except deteriorating politics 🤷♂️
I'm just here hoping people get the Pink Floyd reference.
Who?? Must be a tiny band nobody's ever heard of
Oh by the way, which one is Pink?
How daft can you get?? Pink is the first name, Floyd is the family name of the guy.... Uncultured swine!
That lil punk!
Naw the Who are a band that Horton heard.
Just like in Click starring Adam Sandler.
Hate to be on my death bed and start having flash backs to high school geometry
I just turned 30 today. I did not need to see this
I'm 54, I wish I was 30 again. Happy birthday. My cousin's, birthday is today, he's 48.
I'm 33. You'll be okay, I promise. I just started getting my shit together.
I'm about a decade older than that and still working on getting my shit together.
Adulting is hard, but at least there is some progress.
If it makes you feel any better, you would have turned 30 today regardless of what you have done in the past (unless you don't make it to 30 (unless quantum immortality is real)).
Happy birthday! And if you aren't happy with your efforts so far in life, better to tackle that looking forward than regret it looking back, though be kind to the yourself of today so you don't regret spending your life preparing for the future instead of enjoying the moment.
This comic reminds me of the same gripe I had with the movie Click.
The message seems to be "Life is short and precious, so appreciate every moment, because it'll be over before you know it." Which sounds nice, and sweet, and thoughtful, and is complete and utter horse shit.
There are times when life just plain sucks. When it's boring or tedious or even torturous, and it would be 100% worth skipping if you could. When you have a headache at the airport and have just found out your flight has been delayed by 3 hours. When your tooth cracks at 4am and you're waiting for hours in agony until a dentist opens up. When you finished a long work day and just want to get home and collapse, only to find the roads are blocked in a massive traffic jam. These are not fulfilling experiences. You do not learn or grow in any way, except to become more tolerant to enduring unfulfilling experiences. Of course it would be better if you could skip those things!
But yu can't
And the message is to make the best out of those bad moments somehow because like it or not, they're still a part of life and you only will have exactly one life. If you try to skip out the bad moments instead of making them better you only spend a lot of time not living
The amount of hours we pour away slaving for the institution we were born into. How much of our lives do we spend doing shit we don't want to do with people who don't give a damn about us?
All so we can "earn" the right to food, shelter, and access to all that our communities have to offer from people who want nothing more than to exploit us for power.
Pink Floyd is such a great vibe. They made feelings into music so well..
I find this so profoundly sad. 😔
This reminds me of a joke where a student tells the teacher that if they had only one more hour of life, they would spend it in that teacher's class. The teacher gets moved by the comment and, while wiping a tear, asks why the student would choose their class to spend the last hour, and the student says that it's because that hour would feel like an eternity.
Isn't it funny how we want to spend our lives doing what we want to do?
Haha well you're dead now and it's too late! XD
The days are long but the years are short.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Pure poetry, that hit me hard.
There was an Adam Sandler movie about this. "Click"? Saw it once. Couldn't again. Not because I don't like most of his movies. This one just ended up being too sad.
I'm 47 and it's really starting to accelerate. Enjoy your youth. Time is short. Do what you enjoy now.
Some kid was being a smartass to me so I told him I hoped he aged horribly. He is 23 now and balding.
so when does the curse kick in, you hairy asshole? :P
One of my favourite songs.
The entire song honestly pure poetry in my eyes
For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.
—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)
Yeah kid better learn to enjoy the drudgery imposed on you by institutions because it's all you'll be allowed til you die. /s
Seriously if this comic was trying to communicate the message to enjoy the time you have it's sure shooting itself squarely in the foot with it's scenario.
🤝
a better scenario is waiting on the train, while some kids are playing paper games. It's “dull” waiting if you don't do anything else than wait.
I’d be
the person playing “Simon says,” or “truth or dare” to icebreak my commuters.😁
Run! Rabbit Run!
Way too real
Thanks, now I'm having an existential crisis.
there was a story I heard as a child.
a boy was always impatient and didn't want to wait for anything. an imp gifted him a ball of yarn and told him to pull the loose end and time would skip depending on how much he pulled out.
as you can imagine things didn't go well for the boy.