And the Wheels on the Bus - Equipped for Battle

Another year closes in on its end. The hands of time have moved and continually move forward. Tick, tock, tick, tock the clock sounds in the background, and with each tick and each tock, the beginning of a new year draws closer, again. Some sang, “Time keeps on spinnin' into the future”, and another noted, “There's a time to be born, and a time to die”. What will transpire in the next year? What surprises shall it hold? How many old friends will disappear, and how many new friends will be made? So many questions, and so many wonders occur when the “Wheels on the bus go round and round” as the children song says.

If there is ever a desire for an exercise in futility, try to stop the wheels of time. It's useless because time continues. Well, at least that is for the ones who are breathing. There is much to wonder about the absence of time and living outside of the time continuum after a person expires, but that subject might be better shared at another “time”, however, there is inability to retard that which is inevitable. This year, if fate allows, the reader and the writer shall age, and there is a dim likelihood that it shall be any different than that. The wheels of time may grind slowly, but they do indeed grind, and sometimes it seems as though they grind right over the entire existence of living.

So what's to be made of this disappearing commodity called “time”? What is one to do with that which is vanishing and is very much like a vapor? Are there “bucket list” items that must be met this next year? Is there a person or two with which the “score” might be settled? Perhaps there is a bit of weight to be lost, a pledge to be made, a new direction to be taken, or a relationship to be restored. As the ghost of Christmas Present in “A Christmas Carol” reminds those who will listen to him about the wheels on the bus, “Remember, time is short, and suddenly you're not there any more.”

Until tomorrow...Why say more?

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