Appreciate each stage of life
Katie Gomez
Issue date: 11/18/09 Section: Editorial
The real world called and it was our turn to answer. We are now in our mid-twenties and thirties working nine to five at a company that makes us sit behind a desk staring at a computer until it's time to go home to our wife and kids. We now have responsibilities we often forget come with being an adult. We have bills to pay and mouths to feed. We're too busy with work and taking our kids to soccer practice or dance that we no longer have time to drink until dawn or to stay up playing video games. Now we are the ones in charge, taking care of our own children and hoping they don't grow up as fast as we did.
Eventually, we become old…wrinkly old…my-kids-are-all-grown-up-and-I'm-stuck-in-a-nursing-home old. We sit back and wonder where our life went and what we spent it doing. We no longer wish for that next birthday, but rather that birthday fifty years ago. We wish we were still young and could act and play like children.
We become so busy waiting for the next milestone that we never stop to enjoy each stage of life. We are all guilty of wanting time to go by faster, but what happens when all of the milestones happen? We end up with a life wasted on waiting and wishing with not enough living.
Once we turn 16, there's no turning back to five and playing with toys. When 21 hits, we are no longer crazy teenagers without a care in the world. When we turn 30, there is no late-night partying and exam-cramming in the morning. And when we are 60 and looking back, there is no substitute for your wedding day or watching the birth of one of your children or when they take their first step. We must all learn to appreciate the time we have at each stage in life before we miss out on things we can't get back. In life, there are no do-overs and when it's gone, it's gone.
Katie Gomez is a junior majoring in communications. You may e-mail her at kathryn.gomez@sckans.edu
Eventually, we become old…wrinkly old…my-kids-are-all-grown-up-and-I'm-stuck-in-a-nursing-home old. We sit back and wonder where our life went and what we spent it doing. We no longer wish for that next birthday, but rather that birthday fifty years ago. We wish we were still young and could act and play like children.
We become so busy waiting for the next milestone that we never stop to enjoy each stage of life. We are all guilty of wanting time to go by faster, but what happens when all of the milestones happen? We end up with a life wasted on waiting and wishing with not enough living.
Once we turn 16, there's no turning back to five and playing with toys. When 21 hits, we are no longer crazy teenagers without a care in the world. When we turn 30, there is no late-night partying and exam-cramming in the morning. And when we are 60 and looking back, there is no substitute for your wedding day or watching the birth of one of your children or when they take their first step. We must all learn to appreciate the time we have at each stage in life before we miss out on things we can't get back. In life, there are no do-overs and when it's gone, it's gone.
Katie Gomez is a junior majoring in communications. You may e-mail her at kathryn.gomez@sckans.edu
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