What happened to yesterday?

And how did we suddenly find ourselves on a roller-coaster heading at high speed towards Christmas?

Many of us are still recovering from February!!

Yes, I know I am getting older, and I have been warned all my life that time will become a lot more slippery as the number of candles on my birthday cake increases, but really? This is ridiculous!

You’d think that because I no longer give blood, sweat and tears to the daily grind, I’d be wondering how to fill all the extra hours that suddenly appeared when I stopped working.  It turns out that it is really easy.  No more eating on the run – I can sit and relax, read my book, take a nap, or catch up with memories on Face Book, even doom-scroll without any guilt at all. 

I live In Far North Queensland and almost every day I talk on the phone with a friend who lives in Texas, USA.  Currently there’s a 15 hour time difference between us so it’s a good job she is a night owl and I am a morning person – or I was until I retired and my body realised that there was no real reason to get up at sparrow fart any more and burn my tongue gulping down super hot coffee before hurtling out the door to catch a bus… I can relax, take my time, savour the aroma, and talk with my friend on the other side of the world.

Talking with my friend is like time-travelling.  Here, in Queensland, I might be drinking my coffee on a Wednesday morning, but at the same time she is shopping in Walmart on Tuesday afternoon!  It’s both easily explainable and highly amusing at the same time.  Conversations with someone who is standing in the check-out line – yesterday!!  That’s weird.

I once heard an explanation as to why time seems to speed up as we get older.  It’s not so much that we are on the slippery slope side of life, as the distance we have to look backwards.  What I was told was:

When you are ten years old, ten years represents your entire life.

When you are 20 years old, ten years is half of your life.

When you are 50 years old, ten years is only a small fraction of your life.

And if you are still around at 100 years, then ten years is like yesterday.

So when I ask the question, What happened to yesterday?  it’s a lot less rhetorical nowadays than when I was 20!!

Luckily, I am an avid writer, and daily writing in my journal is something rarely missed, but when my Texan friend asks “What’ve you been doing?” my mind frequently goes into a high dive…  what have I been doing?  And when?  My time or her time – which is yesterday for me.

Yes.  I know.  I’m weird.  But so is time.

It’s really slippery.  It can be yesterday and today both at the same time.

Don’t ever tell me that time travel is impossible, because I just wont believe you.  I do it every day!

Thank you for reading my words.  Let me know about any funny or weird experiences you have had with time.