Time, fairies, memories and other random facts

It’s been awhile since I last posted anything. More free time means less procrastination, and results in less blogging. Oddly true logic.

But time has certainly been passing.

I have a very fickle relationship with time. I curse the hours for dragging by and then gasp to find that months have passed in the blink of an eye. I despair when the seconds mature so slowly, it’s as if they refuse to form minutes as well as when minutes dance so fast past the hours that whole days disappear. Time disappears into the endless depths of itself, hours roll into each other, years come and go, the fairies come out to play and the cow runs away with the moon.

A few photos, some scribbled words, several patched memories and the accumulation of random facts lay collected in a small pile of 08. I already can’t recall them with perfect clarity. The experiences that challenged and changed me this year, will be changed and challenged in my memory. Things learnt will be forgotten as more and more of my youth vanishes before my eyes. The massing feeling of things that are yet to be done or learnt, loves yet to be had and laughs yet to be shared fills me with an overwhelming sense of time running far ahead of my feet. But before I run off with the fairies, I really ought to get a grip on myself, time is wasted despairing about things over which one has no control. And so there are 3 revealing facts I came across in 08 that will guide me through 2009...

1. The average person will buy 22 greeting cards a year.
- My performance has been below average.

2. Neanderthals living in Europe were fair skinned, freckled, had red/ginger hair and could talk.
- I am led to believe I’m a very direct descendant.

3. Supernatural beings can be anything from giants to trolls, dwarves, gnomes, hobgoblins, leprechauns, African tokolshes, elves and fairies. Not all these creatures are benign, and some, like African entities, are terrifying. Fairies have been called many different names, but it is certain that they exist. If you set out to see them, you will be taking some risk, although European lore suggests that they cannot do real harm to humankind.

The New Year looms ahead, empty and daunting and only one question remains to be asked: will the woodland fairies reveal themselves to me, or will my searching be fruitless?

Only time will tell.