Life goes too fast. It seems like just yesterday I was drawing with chalk on the sidewalks and now I'm staring down the barrell of my inevitable future in college. The thing is that we make it go so fast. As a people, we fill our lives with so many obligations, deadlines, due dates, proceedures, and requirements in order to be what is considered "successful" in life that we do nothing but work, looking foward to some quick break in the future that never really relieves us. I know that there is nothing that I can do about it, but I felt a need to say so.

I just wish more people could do what I do in order to keep their head on their shoulders; just take a minute, sit back, and enjoy the simple things. I sat on a bench today and watched some clouds pass through the sky swiftly and gracefully, running from an approaching storm. Everyone that passed me assumed that I was waiting on someone or something to that nature because it seems un-heard of to NOT have some sort of agenda in today's "Don't stop or you'll drop" world. No, I was watching clouds, and more importantly, relaxing.

Life speeds by like a bullet. The point is not to catch it or keep up with it, but to simply enjoy it. You CAN slow it down. The world can stand still if you want it to. Just relax. Listen to your favorite music and do nothing else in the meantime. Stargaze, take a walk, take a nap, climb a tree, kiss like no one is watching, lay down in the grass and watch the clouds pass by; just relax, and the world will stand still for you.