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Snowballs, you know, have a way of going faster and growing faster as they roll downhill gathering snow as they go. Life is something like that too if you stop to think about it. We are born small and times goes very slowly. Each day seems to last and last and there are endless more days stretching away in front of us, an apparently limitless time in which to enjoy a limitless succession of experiences. The gathering of those experiences is equivalent to the accumulation of the snow on the rolling snowball. The more the snow the bigger the ball so the faster it goes and the more it gathers, etc. As we grow older we accumulate experiences. The growth, perspective, wisdom, knowledge and point of view that we distill from these experiences gives us an increasing ability to perceive, to plan and to accomplish still other experiences. Time too seems to go faster and faster. To become 70 or 80 years of age (like your grandfather when you were a child) seems as distant as the moon and the likelihood of reaching it equally remote. But by the time you are 35 or 40 and suddenly realize that you have been out of college for 10 or 15 years and that you are already at the half way point on that improbable journey it suddenly jars you that as the saying goes, "Time's a wasting.” It surely is and if you are planning to do some specific thing or reach some specific goal you had better "get with it" promptly.

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