{"id":3753,"date":"2015-05-25T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2015-05-25T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T03:52:54","slug":"slow-down-you-move-too-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"Slow down, you move too fast."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"turttttlllle\"<\/a> \"doggggy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Memorial Day is officially over for 2015.\u00a0 That means, that summer is officially here\u2026 unofficially.<\/p>\n

By our societal standards\u2026 this is the day that marks when you can start wearing white pants and white shoes again.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

And when older men\u2026 can start wearing their black socks pulled up to their knees, with their tennis shoes\u2026 and shorts.\u00a0 Faux Pas, if there ever was one.<\/p>\n

At any rate.\u00a0 Summertime, summertime.\u00a0 Now, truly and officially, it does not begin until the Summer Solstice.\u00a0 Which happens to occur on Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 16:39 UCT (Universal Coordinated Time).\u00a0 That, for me\u2026 is 12:39 p.m.\u00a0 For someone in Seattle, WA, it is 9:39 a.m.<\/p>\n

But I am jumping head.\u00a0 Here we are just after Memorial Day.\u00a0 Here is what I am thinking.\u00a0 Where did the month of May go?\u00a0 I mean\u2026 it seems like just yesterday we were freezing our booties off\u2026 in the January deep freeze.<\/p>\n

I feel like one of those cartoon characters\u2026 where the pages of the daily calendar\u2026 start flying off the wall\u2026 in high-speed motion.\u00a0 Flip, flip, flip, flip\u2026 the pages swirling through the air around me.<\/p>\n

As the old saying goes\u2026.\u00a0 Time Flies.\u00a0 Personally, I think it flies\u2026whether we are having fun of not.\u00a0 And it seems like the older we are, the faster it goes.<\/p>\n

I have a theory about that.\u00a0 And wouldn\u2019t you know it?\u00a0 I am going to share it with you.\u00a0 As we get older\u2026 our bodies begin to slow down.\u00a0 This is a scientific fact.\u00a0 You see\u2026. our brain cells fire off commands to muscles. Fast firing depends on good insulation in our brain\u2019s wiring.<\/p>\n

Now new research suggests that in middle age\u2026.. even healthy people begin to lose some of that insulation in the motor-control part of the brain.\u00a0 And as a result\u2026 the whole speed-reaction of the body slows.<\/p>\n

AND\u2026.. if THAT weren’t enough\u2026. we lose our muscles too.\u00a0 Yep. Muscle is constantly being built up and broken down in humans.\u00a0 By the time we’re 30, this process starts to go south.\u00a0 The breakdown of muscle becomes greater than buildup.\u00a0 Once we reach 40\u2026\u00a0 we start to lose between 0.5 and 2 per cent of our Popeye-Rippling muscles each year.\u00a0 Hand me the Spinach Can…. I\u2019ll tell you.<\/p>\n

But back to my theory.\u00a0 We are slowing down.\u00a0 Time is still moving at the same rate as always.\u00a0 Hence\u2026 the illusion that it is moving more quickly than ever before…. since we are now slower than a snail in Elmer’s glue.<\/p>\n

When we were five years old\u2026 it took EONS\u2026 for Santa Clause to get here next week.\u00a0 Now\u2026 at age 65\u2026. one week goes by with the twitch of a nose and a wink of the eye.\u00a0 Right up the chimney.<\/p>\n

And there it is.\u00a0 Memorial Day has come and gone.\u00a0 And we turning in to mush.\u00a0 What the heck.\u00a0 Wear the black knee-highs with your tennis shoes.\u00a0 It seems of little concern in the face of everything else.<\/p>\n

It is often good if we can consider the bigger scheme of things.\u00a0 Sometimes the little things shouldn\u2019t matter so much\u2026 when the really big things should.\u00a0 A tick.\u00a0 And a tock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I\u2019d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 George Carlin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2015 Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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