So That Was Christmas

Damn. It's over so quickly.

OK - we're still in the "Twelve Days" bit so I'm still putting the tree lights on in the evening, still eating a mince pie with my morning cuppa, still hanging on to Christmas until Epiphany arrives.

But it does pass so quickly. Right from the "Is it December yet?? Can I put the tree up yet??" impatience, through the "Nearly here" build up to the "Yay, it's Christmas Eve" celebration. And then you turn around and Christmas Day has ended, Boxing Day has ended, and you're staring down the barrel of Hogmanay...

And it's such a very long time before it's Christmas again...

It's what Shultz's Charlie Brown used to call "The Post Christmas Letdown". *sigh*

Ah well... only another 360 days till Christmas... *bounce*

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And E, mate, I used to know somebody who had a theory about the years passing more quickly... He used to say...

"When you're ten a year is a tenth of your life, and that's a pretty big slice, but when you're fifty a year is only a fiftieth and that's so tiny, no wonder it passes by so quickly."

He was right. Imagine a pizza cut into ten slices. Now the same pizza cut into fifty... hardly even a bite...

Depressing, isn't it.

Ze

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