My Scrambled Thoughts on Social Media and Time

If there’s any one quote I distinctly remember it’s,

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost.

Life goes on, despite how much I want it to slow down. As many of you all know, weeks and months can fly in the blink of an eye. That huge event that you spent weeks planning and preparing for? Done. Finals Week? Done. And at the end of it all, you’re left contemplating “Where did all the time go?” You began to fear that in the blink of an eye, your life will be over. Yes, everyone tells you to “live in the moment” and to stop worrying about the future, but do we?

Reading my past facebook conversations with some of my old close friends made me realize how much time had truly passed, how much my relationships with people were falling apart, like grains of sand slipping through my fingers. “I’ll message them tomorrow” I say. But I never do. I realize some of my conversations are always started by the other person and I wonder if they realize that.

I feel like a shadow of my old self. The old me would start up conversations effortlessly, genuinely interested. Is it a chore now? Did I peak already? Am I happy with who I am today? As the old cliche goes, only time will tell.