timing...

Time has always been something of a mystery to me.  Time is a relative thing and not a constant.  Einstein theorized this in his Theory of Relativity.  t basically means that time is different for everyone depending on the speed at which that person is moving.  I am positive that going to the University of Michigan was a perfect fit for me.  Everything was 10min behind schedule.  A 1000am class started at 1010am.  Not exactly the kind of mental training that professionals would say was 'setting ourselves up for success'.  You can always tell a Michigan person by their being 10min late for everything.  Call it fashionably late.  Call it relativity.  It is like we live in our own time zones.  Just 10min removed from the rest of reality.

I have always been just in time for everything.  School, jobs, you name it.  I had a boss once tell me, 15min early is on time, on time is too late.  So i guess in that sense i have always been a bit late arriving to everything.  My grandpa on the other hand was always a half hour early for everything.  I feel like my life has been punctuated by moments where i was always the last one there.  But i suppose the bright side of that is that i got there on my own.  No one was there to push me.  I didn't start snowboarding or soccer until middle school.  I pushed myself to do it.  No one else.  I didn't really date someone until college because there just wasn't anyone that captivated my mind.  Again, all in my own time, no one else.  My 20s were pretty much the same way.  I took my time in college, partially due to my vast array of interests and partially due to getting sick.  But it was on my own time.  And now i leave for the greatest adventure of my life, some may say a bit late, but i think it had to come now, and no other time. 

Time has always meant something different to me.  There are places where time just seems to stop.  Places where time can't go fast enough.  Places where you wish time could reverse itself.  A unique phenomenon happens with me, and i'm not sure if it does for others too.  I was born Nov 21st.  11/21.  My favorite numbers are 21 and 11.  And somehow, someway, i always seem to glance at a clock when it reads 11:21.  Perhaps just one of my many eccentricities...

But i think the famous words of Bill S Preston, esquire, and Ted "Theodore" Logan say it best.  The best place to be is here, the best time to be is now, and all I can say is 'Lets Rock!'