By G.I.N.A. (Game Is Not Allowed)

Unbelievable, Thanksgiving 2009 is upon us.  Feels as if Fourth of July fireworks were only weeks ago.  Now we are stuffing the fowl and decking the halls.  Time seems to pass quickly these days. 

As a child the school year was an eternity to me.  My child’s school year passes in a New York minute.  (She came home the other day and sang “seven months ’til summer vaaacatioooon.”  Is little one for real?  I’m still trying to remember her teachers’ names and she’s ready for summer recess.)  Once we get passed the holidays and Christmas break, the children have winter break then Easter break (otherwise known as spring break to the older students).  Next thing I know, it’s spring concerts, final grades and attempting to recall the names of a new batch of teachers.

As an adolescent I couldn’t wait to be an adult, my mother told me hundreds of times to enjoy my youth.  Now I’m the broken record, drilling the same concept into my daughter.  In her mind it’s “no fair” being a child because adults get to “do what they want”; that’s what I thought, now I would like to rewind the hands of time and go back to the carefree bliss of childhood.  Ironically, the time that seemed to pass slowly in my youth, has moved to the fast lane in my adult years.  Sometimes when asked my age I have to stop and think.  Did I pull a Rip Van Winkle because I’m sure I just celebrated my twenty first birthday!

It is easy to mourn the loss of time after the fact.  When I’m in the office struggling through a Monday morning I often long for five o’clock or better yet Friday.  I never give thought to the time I am willing away.  So life goes by in a flurry of wished away moments, always hoping that the next hour, day or week would hurry and arrive (or conclude).  Maybe it isn’t time that is scurrying pass but me bustling through life in a hurry to get…where?  If youngsters will time away longing for the “freedom” of adulthood, do adults squander that freedom in a rush to the eventual limitations of old age?

While we prepare our Thanksgiving feasts let’s take a moment to appreciate the time we are given.  Life is fast paced during the holidays.  After turkey day, Christmas arrives in the blink of an eye.  Before we know it the new year is at our door with a new three hundred sixty five day timeline to create all the magic moments we choose.  Take the time to make time, before time runs out.  Have a happy, safe and blessed Thanksgiving.

Follow G.I.N.A. on Twitter @  http://twitter.com/gameisnotallwd

Follow Us on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/planetill

Join Us on the Planet Ill Facebook Group for more discussion

Check out Planet Ill’s page on Essence.com

Follow us on Networked Blogs