I have always heard the older people say that Christmas gets here earlier each year.  Of course, we know that it is always comes on December 25.  But why does it seem to come and go so quickly, especially the older we get?  Here are my two theories.

  • The older we get, the more life experience we have, and the more familiar things are to us.  Familiar things have a way of passing right by us and we seldom pay close attention to the common things in life.
  • The older we get, we start to move slower.  (Have you every driven behind many of our senior citizens?  You get my point!)  Since we are moving slower, everything around us seems to be moving faster…and often times it is!  So the chasm between the pace of our lives and the pace of life gets larger the older we get.

Christmas this year has certainly arrived much quicker than I anticipated.  Christmas day is only 9 days away!  It seems like it should be at least 20 days away.  Wow…I must really be getting old!

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