Years and Days

This is a reprise of a LinkedIn post I wrote some time ago, but it has more meaning these days. The Progressive Commercials are great at ripping “parents” with really funny tropes and montages about goofy habits of ”your parents.” One of those is the Live Laugh Love type wooden signs many people have. There are other popular sayings like “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere” and “Family…” something or other. Someone on social media was listing these and included The Days are Long But The Years are short and instead of a belly laugh it stopped me dead in my tracks.

How powerful is this statement, especially for, drum roll, parents? And parents of high school seniors? Those days that you sometimes dread and maybe there is some fighting or adolescent angst or school issues or long rides of games or social nights curbed by parental duties. And in the blink of an eye, the kids are growing up or have grown up and the years seem to go by too fast. The moral of the story is - you can’t run away from any of this. Embrace the present. Live for today. Don’t blink.