I nodded and smiled and pretended to agree, to know, to understand something beyond my wisdom. I was barely more than a child myself, and the first couple of decades of my own life has seemed to plod along. Now I tell new parents the same. I plead with them to heed. And they nod and smile and pretend to agree.
New parents wonder if the tedious times ever end, and tomorrow they'll wonder where they went.
You can shake your head and wonder how adults can be so nerdly. I once felt the same. Yet now, in earnest passion, I try to convince you that life is indeed short. It is a vapor that appears for an instant and then vanishes. Watching you as a freshman, I wondered what your mature body would be like when you were a senior.