Time

Just a brief outlook on time, maybe ill write a longer outlook on this topic later. I was at a 4-h banquet tonight. It's an annual banquet in which we celebrate, and recognize the past year that we experienced. I was the president this past year and I sat at the head table at the banquet. as our adult leader gave out awards for the 4-her's in our club, I watched as they came up to recieve their award and recognition. I saw the many smiling faces of the younger kids (2nd and 3rd graders), as they were eager to run up and get their pencil, and their 2 seconds in the spotlight. I can remeber when I was that age, It was the best feeling to go up and get that pencil, and know that the next year I would recieve a bigger and better award than a little pencil. Well when I saw the little kids coming up, all smiles and everything, I went back to when I was that age. I realized that when I was their age I couldn't fathom how long it would take to become as old as the kids at our table were. They were so big, they knew longer words, they could eat more than we could, they were mature at least thats what we thought. So when I that age I thought it would take forever to become that old, I thought it would never happen, but when I was sitting at that head table tonight, I realized, it has seemed like such a short time ago that I recieved my pencil, like it was just yesterday. So it made me think, there is so much time in the future, but not in the past, you can only look back at the past, you cant look into the future. Only hind sight is 20-20.