Past, Present, and Future

Where have the days gone?  It feels like just yesterday school was beginning and summer was behind me.  There was so much to do and to look forward to that I had no time to think about what had passed.  But now that the year is almost over, I stop and think, "What was I doing all this time?"  I know this year passed just the same as others, but I can't help getting the feeling that the older I get, the faster time flies.  I really don't know what to do with myself now that my controlled chaos is coming to a close.  It baffles me how we can live through a long period of time and not even pay attention to it.  It seems like we are always either looking back or jumping ahead, but we never really take the time to live in the present.  The future holds exciting things for me and I love to imagine it, but sometimes I have to remind myself to slow down and to live in the present.  I occasionally forget to savor the moments as they happen because in only a wisp of time they will be a memory and I will long for them just the same as I do others.  Then again, isn't most of life made up of memories?  Where would we be without the things we hold dear, without those things that are so special to us?  Oh, Time, how you always seem within our grasp but in truth you are constantly slipping away into the future faster than we can blink.