I’ve been chewing on the lyrics of Pink Floyd’s song ‘Time’ from The Dark Side of the Moon record. It reads a lot like the book of Ecclesiastes. Essentially time is an unstoppable constant that consumes us completely in the/our end. Its easy to just live, spinning our wheels, keeping the merry-go-round greased, but many years will quickly come upon us and our present will come back to haunt us with all kinds of questions–namely, “why not?”. We’re currently kicking around on a piece of ground in my home town, waiting for someone or something to show us the way. The last 2.5 years have felt like a hamster wheel and we feel like something has got to give. It’s not just frustration. We really feel like something huge is on the horizon. I can’t waste another year, month, even day. I am ready to truly be alive. I’m ready to live this life with my beautiful wife and 3 incredible children (who constantly remind us that time is moving faster than we think). Something needs to happen, I’m starting to feel older.

Time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation…