For the past couple weeks, I've been really loving the song " As We Are Now" by Saint Raymond. It's a great song to play on the bike ride home from work – I definitely get those "I must be in the intro for a beautifully filmed indie movie right now" vibes. This song has actually made it to my "Songs You Listen To When You Bike Home From Work to Feel Like You're in a Movie Playlist" on Spotify... lol you get it. But actually in one of these great biking home moments, the line "We will never be as young as we are now" really stuck to me.
To think that every day we are getting older and the big problems in our lives will grow to later be insignificant really gets to me. When I was little I was always concerned about what everyone thought of me, but if today I stood and thought about all the stresses that made it seem like the end of the world then, I would just laugh. There's so much more to my life than the little things that will stress me out. Granted I'm not saying I'm always this stress free human being, because that is definitely not the case, but more that I know life has more to offer me when these stresses come about.
I guess it's a part of growing up. Every day, every minute, every second added on to my life make that past seconds less significant. Does that make sense? Mathematically, each second that gets added on to my life makes ratio to each moment in my life smaller... I don't know, I think about this stuff a lot. That's why time seems to go by so fast now. It's crazy to me that I'm almost done with my first semester of sophomore year. It's crazy to think that we can only be as young as we are right now. Because we keep getting older, so might as well take the world with open eyes and adventure, because you will never be this young again.
Just some food for thought this week...
Renee K H
(SIDE NOTE: I'm writing this from a Starbucks from back home and I'm sharing a table with the cutest old couple ever and wow #goals)