what it is worth and how to use it and what it means

# Chapter 117

You do know that time is like, rolling downhill? That it seemingly goes faster and faster as you age. That you seemingly have less and less of it to enjoy. That there are more and more things you aren’t completing and accomplishing and more and more things that you need help with, that decades ago you would have simply done them yourself. Time is rolling downhill and its gaining momentum! This is apparently true until they put you in the nursing home, and then time stops completely. Or that is how it looks from the outside, and how it felt when my mom was there for a few weeks.

From a leadership or development perspective, time is not moving up or down the slope, but we certainly are doing both! There are changes to be sure, but they are all centered in us, not time itself. At most levels time is just a mental construct anyways, a system that we have developed for measuring it and valuing it. But we decide what it is worth and how to use it and what it means. So if time suddenly or incrementally seems like it is rolling downhill you are feeling the changes within you, your internal reassessment of what you do and how long it may be doing it. In my peer group, most have this sudden feeling when they lose a parent or sibling to death. That is the big quantifier that changes how and what we see and feel.

The objective reality is that time continues to march along at the same pace we have always measured it and we are the ones in constant flux and change.