Random waiting-for-a-build thoughts: I find that if you hang around long enough and pay attention, you start to see the shape and patterns of your life. Not an

Random waiting-for-a-build thoughts: I find that if you hang around long enough and pay attention, you start to see the shape and patterns of your life. Not an original or profound observation, but it can be surprisingly easy for many of us to defer thinking about such things. What you gain from this you pay for with time, though. In a similar experience to yours, I watched The Matrix with my son recently and was shocked to discover that it was released in 1999 - but I think of it as a recent thing. Holding my niece when she was a newborn baby and showing her Christmas tree lights, and now she's making an independent life in a big city. In my experience, and as others have commented, having children doesn't slow time down. You're so busy with them for so long, and they rush towards their future so fast. I'm reminded of a phrase that Sam Altman used: The days are long but the decades are short [1]. [1] http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-...