Happy New Year

When I was a student at Shepherd High School, one of my teachers told me about the "relativity of time."  I listened intently.  It seemed to make sense at the time, but it makes even more sense now.  Let me try to explain and show why saying "hello" to 2011 already seems crazy.

The idea of the relativity of time is that your years pass relative to your overall years of life.  In other words, when you are two years old and you live two more to be four, you have double your years of life.  It has doubled in two years.  Now, when you live four more years and are eight years old, you have double your live again.  It has taken four years.  Since it is a doubling of your years of life again, the time seems "relatively" the same as the first two.  The four years seem to pass as fast as the two.  If you carry that our further, you would have the same effect from eight to sixteen, sixteen to thirty-two, thirty-two to sixty-four, etc.  That is a little scary!

But, the older I get, the more it makes sense.  It is hard to believe how far away the year 2000 seemed when I was a high school student in the 1980s.  Now, we are not only passed the year 2000, but we are already in 2011.  I know that people always say, "It goes fast."  The older you get the faster it seems to go.  I guess the lesson on the relativity of time is true.  As the years roll by, it makes more and more sense.

Happy New Year, everyone!  Enjoy the year and don't waste a moment of it.  It really does goes, too fast!