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Yes please

CJ Antichow
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Do you need time?
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It’s interesting how you want time to speed up when you’re young, only to have that completely turn around on you when you reach a certain age.

From probably age eleven onwards, I couldn’t wait to grow up. Move out on my own. Get married and have kids. Really start life. Be in control of every little thing on my own.

Then when it all happens, it just picks you up like a kleenex in a windstorm and it’s over before you know it. Kids are grown up and nearly all gone. (Thank god for Sid).

And you find yourself looking down the barrel of the last half of your life and you just want it to SLOW DOWN.

So yes I’d love more time. An extra hour in each day. An extra day in each week. I’d even take an extra month in each year, preferably in the summer though.

My sweet beautiful boy Sid, nearly 3 years ago

13 responses to “Yes please”

  1. thingsihavethoughtof Avatar
    thingsihavethoughtof

    I was having a discussion the other day. If a tablet was invented that could revert your body back to 25, would you do it? I think almost everyone would, but would you want your mind altered also back to when you were 25? You might not even recognise yourself. And if you wanted to keep your mind the same age as now, does that mean in 50 years time we are old of mind but youg of body, and we act like old people, even with say dementure? Scary to be an old person in a young body, we would be completely different.

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    1. CJ Antichow Avatar
      CJ Antichow

      Ooh yeah idk, they wouldn’t really match up well would they? The young body and the mature brain…idk 🤷🏻‍♀️

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        thingsihavethoughtof

        We would just be all boring young people ;-P

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  2. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    ❤ Lovely post. So true.

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      CJ Antichow

      Thank you Stephanie!

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  3. MyGenXerLife Avatar
    MyGenXerLife

    It really is a strange phenomenon. I remember days dripping by when I was a kid. A day would last forever. Now, I just blink and it’s already trash day again. Didn’t I just take the trash cans to the street the other day? Time really zooms by…

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    1. CJ Antichow Avatar
      CJ Antichow

      It’s so cliche but so damn true!

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  4. Not all who wander are lost Avatar
    Not all who wander are lost

    I think if I had more time, I might not even notice the days are always so full. But to capture the timelessness of being a kid really would be amazing.

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    1. CJ Antichow Avatar
      CJ Antichow

      Yep more time than you know what to do with when you’re a kid!

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  5. Terri Lynn Avatar
    Terri Lynn

    When I turned 40, my cousin called to wish me happy birthday and he did it in the following manner, “congratulations your life is now half over“.

    I’ll be 62 in December, time march is on. Yes I’ll take more time too.

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      CJ Antichow

      It’s a slap in the face to realize but good in a way too, so that hopefully we take heed and use it wisely ☺️

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  6. Darryl B Avatar
    Darryl B

    Great post. I think having a young brain and and old body would be a riot. Imagine trying the dumb stuff we did as kids in a creaky, aching bod 😎😂

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    1. CJ Antichow Avatar
      CJ Antichow

      Lol no kidding!!

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