Time is the dragon in my life.
Even without seeking it out, without glancing at my watch or any of the luminous dials in my house or car, I can feel it breathing hot, sulfuric breath hot on my neck.
Time even flies like a dragon, sometimes with dizzying speed, and other times flitting up and down whimsically, batted around by the wind. It's inconsistent, unreliable, and treacherous.
Our calendar is riddled with project deadlines, class parties, and the to do list grows. Summer used to be an idyllic suspension of time, a succession of long lazy days in the sun, but this year, the dragon has laid waste to the peace, filling it with summer camps, car pool arrangements, and the stress of a growing freelance workload.
I've tried in vain to slay the dragon. I've banished my watch to a drawer. I've set the alarm earlier for a little breathing room. I've canceled classes and turned down commitments. But the dragon always returns, bearing down on me, threatening to engulf me with flames.
Where is the brave knight that will slay this dragon letting us enjoy the meadows in peace once again?
I haven't partaken in Sunday Scribblings prompts in a while. This week's prompt is the Dragon. The terror of the end of school inspired this post.
9 comments:
Your post just about says it all! This time of year is the worst. School's out in four days--yeah, four days. I'm bracing for summer. When did summer stop being lazy?
One of my posts over at the SVMoms blog talked about this very same thing. I am bracing myself and enjoying every little bit of "me" time I have left until the Dragon blows. Well said my dear! Really the stress is here allready, it will just be increased.
And guess what Babe, it goes quicker as you get older, do stuff now not later,,,,then rest, not like me sitting here at the puter before my work is done.
What a wonderful use of the promt. I so remember those days. Beautiful writing too.
A cruel master, yes it is!
I always say that (as a dimension) time is broken. We can only go in one direction--forward--and faster every day. Time is indeed a fearsome dragon.
Ahh yes, truer words were never and more beautifully spoken.
I've always said that, as a 'stay at home Mom' my 'real job' began when school got out for the summer' although,I think the important thing to remember, is that summer CAN be a 'vacation' from deadlines and responsibilities- if just a little bit, for all of of us-young and old. A state of mind, if you will...if we let it.
I love that you reminded me of how sweetly simple summer used to be, as a mom of two little ones myself, I have nearly forgotten.
Pondering your writing, you have helped me to back up and make sure that my kids' summer be that (slow/simple), not packed with the workings of your dragon!
- Dina
I hear you.
Take away time and its so much easier to live in the moment with your kids, to be free and be happy.
I love the use of the word 'treacherous' so appropriate to the prompt and dealing with time as it slips through our fingers.
C.F.
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