Time Keeps Speeding into the Future

Lately, I feel like the kid who missed the bus and starts running after it with all her might. All this exertion only to see the bus accelerate  faster and faster and leave me behind. That is the way I feel with time. Time is the bus that is always racing away just out of reach. How do I reach out and grab time and own it, control it, and use it for my improvement and success? I never have enough. Is it just me or do the days fly by faster as one grows older? Minutes seem like seconds, an hour is like ten minutes, and a day is  now only a blip of time soon to be forgotten. It seems like yesterday that I was in high school. It is even more strange to recall the way I used to look at the world and remember certain thoughts when I was ten and even five.

All of a sudden, time races by and I am an adult, living on my own, married, and coming closer to the end of my journey of becoming a teacher. Yes, a teacher. A teacher who is responsible for the education of many young lives. A teacher. A person that helps prepare kids for adulthood. A teacher. One that does his or her best to give everything they have to help better the world by educating and inspiring young minds. Am I alone when I sometimes feel intimidated and overwhelmed with these thoughts? Many people never want to be a brain surgeon for various reasons. A common one is that if they mess up they do not want to be responsible for losing a life. This may sound heavy, but it is similar with a teacher. Not giving a student every opportunity to succeed because the teacher is lacking skill and knowledge takes away from the life of a child. Imagine if a student had one of these teachers who were not quite ready every year they were in school. What does that add up to?... a life lost. A life that contains no direction. So, in a sense, teachers are brain surgeons. Instead of repairing them, though, we get to fill them with the knowledge to help them succeed. So I ask my fellow future teachers, are you ready for such a responsibility and for such an important role in the world? Honestly, I do not yet feel ready. I will take the time needed to be ready, and I will not step into the classroom as a teacher until I feel ready to fill that role. That is why I will not student teach until the fall semester so I feel that I can better prepare myself to be the best that I can. Of course, I know much learning takes place in the first years of teaching and mistakes will be made. Being fully prepared will help me to know how to improve.

So, I will use time to my advantage. I will harness time, try to slow it down, and be ready for the journey ahead.