December 1, 2010
Think about that date for a minute. If you're old enough to really remember the 90's, then you remember the hubbub around the year 2000, and if you're anything like me that feels like it was yesterday.
Looking back now, I see the vast majority of the things in my life that I will cherish have happened in the past ten years, but those years seem to have - in some way that conflicts with the laws of nature - to have taken less time than the ten before them (and for me, the six before that).
It was a whole month ago that I said to someone, "I can't believe it is already November." Yet now, that month seems to have been compressed into a week.
Days seem shorter, yet each moment seems sweeter. It is as if life is becoming distilled into an ultra-concentrated form, and I'm loving every second of it.
