A Spin Around the Sun

I remember kindergarten pretty distinctly. For a long time I remembered it as an eternity. It must have taken at least four or five years to get through. Of course I know now it was just two. And some of it was just half days. But it felt like a whole lifetime. I met new people. I learned so much. I made friends. I got bullied. I had multiple teachers somehow. It felt so very long. Childhood was like that. Two hour roadtrip were ordeals. A day passing was an eternity. Tv shows were so long, and the commercials long enough to go off and do other things and come back and still have time to watch the toy commercials. Then as I got older, 30 minutes of tv felt like nothing. I could on a whim jump in a car and drive for three hours and think nothing of it. And now seasons pass like days. I look out my window and think how a year ago, I must have been in this same spot, looking at the same view, and thinking the same thoughts. Time just keeps passing faster and faster, and it bothers me less and less.