No Time at All

Forty-nine. Half a century minus one. Where did the time go? Will Rogers said that "half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." Rushing through each day, looking for tomorrow...seems like a poor way to live a life. Rather than look for tomorrow, let's take a peek at yesterday. Think about people who were your current age when you were born. Those who were 49 in 1961 lived through:

• the sinking of the Titanic
• WWI
• the Great Depression
• Albert Einstein presenting the Theory of General Relativity
• Prohibition and the repeal of Prohibition
• the formal creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• the Scopes Monkey Trial
• The Jazz Singer debuting as first talking film
• the introduction of Mickey Mouse
• construction of the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge
• the discovery of Pluto
• WWII
• the first use of Penicillin to successfully to treat a patient
• the creation of the State of Israel
• the Korean War
• Jonas Salk announcing the development of a vaccine for polio
• the opening of Disneyland
• the USSR launching Sputnik to officially begin the Space Race.

Heck, just consider the changes in technology they saw: electricity, telephones, automobiles, airplanes, machine guns and tanks, nuclear bombs...the list goes on. We're no slackers in that department either, as personal computers, cell phones, video players, DVDs, mp3s and color television are just a few of the what seems like a gazillion items to come along in the last 49 years. The minutes and hours in a day are constant and stay the same, and yet there are days when it feels time goes by so quickly and there are not enough hours in the day. I have learned the real issue is not that time went faster, but how the time was spent.