Waits were interminable. A day seemed to last forever. Life was in slo-mo. You had time to explore, time to play, time to dawdle, and time to sniff the roses. Today life is on fast forward.
Events race by.
There's never enough time to get everything done. Things fall off the table. And as we get older, the days roll by ever-faster. Life is frantic. Slowing down the clock Many years ago, in my reckless youth, I was zooming along the autoroute southeast of Paris on my motorbike and crashed full-force into the back of an illegally parked Citro e n van.