Time flies

Hi guys!

A couple of days ago I was told some news that really made me think about how time flies. It's good news - no worries, but it just came as quite a shock since there was no way that I had expected this. Okay that might be a little bit of a lie, but I surely didn't see it coming. As some of you might know, I have three older siblings, who are all a lot older than me. I'm 17, my sister is 28, my "younger" older brother is turning 32 this year, and my other brother is 37.. Yeah, I am kind of a late-comer.

Let's start out with my sister. She lives about 200km away, with her boyfriend and their child Liam. Liam is turning one this weekend, and that was something that just hit me here the other day. It really doesn't feel like it has been an entire year since I held that little boy for the first time. I even started doubting it as I wrote this, but the picture prove it.. Damn this is weird! Since my sister and her boyfriend live so far away, we don't really see Liam that often, which might also be a reason why it doesn't feel like it has been an entire year.

The younger older brother, Peter, and his girlfriend is expecting a baby in January. It feels like yesterday I was told that she was pregnant, and it doesn't like like months ago we were told that it is a girl. Now that Pernille went on maternity leave last weekend, it feels like time has just went by, by a blink of an eye - I can't comprehend how time just sort of.. Disappeared. No doubt, I am so fucking excited for this little baby-girl to join our family, but it just scares me how fast time is going!

Now, last but not least..  My oldest brother just got engaged. I.. honestly don't really know how react to this? I am happy for him and his fiancée - but I am baffled that they actually got engaged! My oldest brother and his girlfriend has been trough A LOT of shit, and they're both diagnosed with a sort of depression and/or ADD. I do believe that they are very good for each other, and I really do hope that this lasts.

The reason why this event got me thinking about the time, is that I honestly thought that this would happen a couple of years in the future.. And then I realised that this kind of is the future; my sister has had a child for a year, one of my brothers are expecting a child in two months - and the last one is getting married. No idea when.. but he is. And then I am here, the little late-comer suddenly feeling old, because all of my younger friends are starting the same school as me, going to the same parties and getting drunk - and having the sort of "pre-grown up"-problems that we all dislike. My God, time is fucking flying, and I have a hard time keeping up - but I sure do enjoy it!

Cheers mates! ;-)