Running out of time

“Just wait until you get older. The time goes even faster.” They always said that.

How could time possibly go any faster than its current lightning speed? And yet, they were right. It really is going faster. Maybe the theoretical physicists can explain this one to me. Pull out your fancy equations and your computer simulations. Explain why I’m always behind, always trying to catch up, always running out of time. Time is not an endless resource, it turns out. It gets used and used until finally it’s used up. Only so many hours in the day and somehow I’ve