Purple Haze
Tick-tock
By Lauren Bagian

May 27, 2010

?There are a lot of clocks in my house that tick. I don’t hear them though because I’m used to the sound. However, if I focus, I can hear them ticking just a few seconds off of each other. The ticking of my clocks literally and figuratively represents how time passes us. I can’t believe that it’s been 2 years that I’ve been writing Purple Haze, that I’ve made it through 13 years of schooling and that the summer will fly by in just the same way and I’ll be moving into my first dorm room.

It is said that time moves faster when you don’t think about it, and that can be a good thing as well as a bad thing. When we are waiting for something to be over, such as a long school day, constantly looking at the clock can make the 6 hours seems like a month. However, sometimes waiting for things to fly by us isn’t the best idea. Life is what it is, and we can either live each day in the best way we can, or sit around and wait for it to get to the way we want it, and in my opinion, sitting around won’t get anyone anywhere. There are posters around the high school that display a saying: “Don’t count the days; Make the days count.” That’s some wonderful advice and I hope some of my fellow students realize how important those words are to think about.

As I write my last Purple Haze article, I want to leave you all with an idea: do one thing each day that you’ve never done before. Make pizza from scratch instead of ordering it; try out that new pilates dvd that’s still in the shrink wrapping; read a book from a genre that you think that you normally wouldn’t like. By experiencing more each day, you’ll enrich your life and make your days count instead of just counting them. We cannot stop time, but we can determine how much of it we waste and how much of it that we truly take advantage of, and in the scheme of things, that’s one of the few aspects of living that we can control.