The Relativity of Time

Happy birthday to Judy! It’s funny listening to my Mom and Judy talk about the way time flies. They get lessons on relativity by having birthdays. My Mom and Judy get relativity simply by having the years move more and more quickly. 


It’s true that time does seem to speed up the older you get. It doesn’t seem to me to be three years since I first started spelling. It doesn’t seem to be three years since I met Judy. And I find that time seems to speed by even more when I am busy. I am incredibly busy these days, so the days seem to whiz by. I am already halfway through my first college semester. 

I’m delighted by all the wonderful things in my life, but even I, at only 24, understand that time feels relative. It is in what I call the time-space continuum that I compare a day now to a day when I was in school. That seemed to last a year. 

Anyway, I believe that years are what you make of them. I am making good use of my time now. And I am very happy to share my time with Judy. We have an amazing time together. And time together feels like the most precious gift of all.