Being an only child has it’s ups and downs. On one hand, I got to be very spoiled as a child, both materially and emotionally. On the other hand, I did not have a sibling around to learn from or play with. As an only child I learned to use my imagination a lot and create ways to have fun by myself. Sure I had friends, but they were not always around and being so young, I could not just go out and about to meet up with people or go shopping to kill time. I learned to busy myself by carrying on conversations with my toys and drawing on the wall. Since my mother wasn’t one to tell me “No”, instead of taking away my crayons when I colored the walls, she designated a specific wall in my room that was just for my coloring pleasure. Today I am grateful for how I grew up even if at the time I felt bored and denied of companionship. Despite being spoiled, I have grown into a confident, independent adult. By allowing me to express my creativity when I was young, my mother helped me to develop as an artist and problem solver. I am glad that I can still think “outside the box” and come up with entertaining antics that don’t always have to involve going out to the bars. Going to the bars is definitely a good time, but I think it’s also important to be able to have a good time sober. This skill came in very handy when I was living in a small town and didn’t have much of a night life to chose from.

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It’s no secret that time seems to pass by faster as we get older. It seems like the holidays show up more frequently now than they did when I was five but they don’t. Birthdays still only come around once a year and Halloween still only shows up every 365 days. What makes the time seem to fly by some much faster as we get older? I’ve thought a lot about this and the only thing I can come up with is that it does. While a year still lasts 365 days no matter how old you are, it becomes a smaller fraction of your lifetime as you get older. For a two-year-old, Christmas takes half a lifetime to come around. For a forty-year-old, it only takes one fortieth of your life to come back around. When your only working with 720 days worth of life, 365 days is a pretty substantial chunk of time. When you have 14,600 days under your belt, 365 isn’t all that many. Basically, how are perceive an amount of time is relative to our current lifetime. The fact that I can say I’ve known my best friend for 20 years is astounding to me. Its hard for me to imagine knowing anything can remain consistent in my life for 20 years. An 80-year-old might feel differently about that. They would probably have lots of constants that they have know for 20 years. Maybe someone lived in the same house for 20 years, had the same spouse, several friends, or even kept a horse for 20 years. To me that’s an entire lifetime, but for a much older person, 20 years is just a fraction of the life that they know.

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