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To feel like time is running out

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fyjugvdd · 27/08/2021 07:32

This may be a little strange for some.

I feel like time is running out for me constantly to do anything, to just live.

I am a mother of 3 DC, 2 in primary school and a baby- home with me.
I feel like I never have time to do anything even though I don't really do anything! The 6 six hours kids are at school goes in a blink and so does the rest of the day once they are back. By the time I send them to school, feed and dress the baby, shower/dress myself and walk the dog it's usually like 1pm! And only 2 hours left before another school run and same starts!

Really don't understand it.

When DC2 was a baby I seemed to have lots of time to spend with them and to potter around whilst the older one was at school, not now though, the baby grows so quickly and I feel like I don't even know them/ notice things happening/changing until AFTER they happened( don't know if that makes sense).

Anyway it's not just children, my whole life feels like it's running out I literally can't understand where the last 10 or so years have gone! And the feeling that summer is over before it even started, it will soon be Christmas even though we haven't had summer yet ( obviously we had, weird feeling, not rational) etc.

Is it a given when getting older or is there something wrong with me?🙁

OP posts:
Ducksurprise · 27/08/2021 07:38

Yesterday I was sending a small nervous child, in a polo shirt with a bookbag and their favourite small toy smuggled inside it. Today I am helping them pack up for university

I have no idea where the time has gone when I was a child time moved slowly, but now even my younger children think time is flying by. Sorry no help but I feel the same, if anything it gets worse.

MasterGland · 27/08/2021 07:48

I think your perception of time changes as you age. 5 years is a lot when you are 10...not so much when you are 50.

It helps me to take a small moment every day to just BE. This could literally be 5 minutes, before you go to sleep. Sit and listen, try to take in every detail of everything around you.

Imagine life as a dance, not a journey. It's not something you want to get to the end of, it's something you want to enjoy in the moment.

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