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Time manipulation?

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When I was a child, I used to wait anxiously for Christmas Eve to arrive. On December 1st, with the opening of the very first door of the Christmas calendar, I wondered how I should ever mahage to survive those 3 weeks and two days until the 24th. It was such a long time for me. My mother and grandmother used to tell me that for grown-ups time goes by much faster than for the kids. I never believed that until now.

Now those three weeks seem like just a few days. Now Christmas Eve is only a few days away and I feel it is going too fast. Does it have to do with stopping to believe that it is Santa Claus who brings the presents? Or is it the fact that I am too busy with work and other plans that I forgot how time actually flies away?

Want to see some photos?

Today I also reorganized the fotos section with the help of the Slickr plugin. Together with Lightbox, the photo are all now very neatly organized and can be viewed comfortably.

It is the first gallery plugin and works for me. A lot of the plugins I used before were either hard to install, or caused some errors within my WordPress installation. More photos will be coming up soon, as I feel some urge to take pictures of the city at night with all the lights before Christmas will be over.

This was written by Daniela on December 16th, 2007 and filed under: Thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

8 Comments so far to “Time manipulation?”

  1. gravatar Sarah left a comment on December 17th, 2007 at 4:15 pm :

    I guess that these days, I don’t get quite so psyched about Christmas anymore. So the time flies by really quickly - because I’m not thinking about it constantly, as I used to. Maybe it’s the same with you?
    By the way, I love this layout. It’s very smooth and colourful.

  2. gravatar Amy left a comment on December 17th, 2007 at 6:12 pm :

    My mother and grandmother used to tell me that for grown-ups time goes by much faster than for the kids. I never believed that until now.

    You know as sad as that sounds I think they’re right. I don’t think it has anything to do with Santa. I think as we grow older, our perception of time changes. As a kid we think we have all the time in the world so it seems so long, but as adults we know it’s limited.

  3. gravatar tina left a comment on December 18th, 2007 at 9:37 pm :

    I know exactly how you feel. I also think it has to do with our perception of time changing. And as sad as it is (wow,my comment sounds like I copied Amy’s, didn’t mean to do so ^^)every year I get less and less excited about christmas…but I think that has to do with growing up )
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  4. gravatar Sarah left a comment on December 19th, 2007 at 10:41 am :

    It does go to fast!! I’m dreading it actually, I’m so over christmas these days.

  5. gravatar Sandra left a comment on December 19th, 2007 at 11:52 am :

    I don’t celebrate Christmas, so I don’t know ) But I know that as we grow older, time flies. So, shop for presents as soon as you can ~

  6. gravatar Nina left a comment on December 19th, 2007 at 5:04 pm :

    everything in this world has become soo fast now huh? yeah. sometimes i wish i can just stop time and do everything. it’s different now. i can’t tell you why but it is. it just feels that way.

    that’s a great plug in, i have to use that! )

  7. gravatar kimba left a comment on December 19th, 2007 at 7:30 pm :

    things have definately changed as far looking forward to christmas now compared to then. i think (as horrible as this sounds) christmas seems more like a chore then actually christmas.

  8. gravatar Kristina (despair) left a comment on December 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am :

    I know it goes by all fast.. When i was kid it seemed like forever till xmas came.. lol