Time Passes Indifferently

Christmas was 4 months ago now.  On Christmas I sat in my Florida paradise and looked forward to the next half of my freshman year.  There was so much more life to be lived, so many more opportunities to explore, experiences to have, at Calvin College in the coming semester.  My first January interim, the trials of a Michigan winter, beginning a new round of classes, with all the work and learning that implied, friends to grow closer to, a room to myself, holidays and work days, spring break and long weeks with no break at all.  April seemed such a long way off, separated from the present by so many hours, so many experiences, so many plans.  And looking back, I am once more struck by the ease with which time passes.  All the things I looked forward to and all the things I dreaded, all have now passed into mere memory.  Some of those memories are pleasant: my first date with my boyfriend, Interim break, the first day of spring classes, spring break in Florida, days off at Easter.  Some of these memories less so: the spring FTX, interim finals, snow storms, long weeks of trudging through classes, early morning PT.  From where I sit now, the end of Freshman year is so close.  The last week of ROTC is next week, classes wrap up in a month, finals are over in just a week more.  I have a summer of fun and adventure.  A cruise, a trip to Angola, a family reunion, moving to Korea.  Friends visiting in May, boyfriend visiting in June.  Weeks in the sun and weeks in uniform.  And then a flight back to Grand Rapids in August with my brother, to start the cycle all over again.  And when August rolls around, in another 4 months, that is, I'm sure I'll be looking back at this very blog post wondering what happened to all that time.  Because those four months will pass just as quickly as these have, and I'll be sitting at the end thinking, "well, it's all over now.  Where has the time gone?"