Entry for 4th January, 2009 - Get your hands off of my clockface

I have been worrying a bit about my own mortality recently. It seems to have co-incided with becoming a father, and I suspect that the two may well be linked. Until the kids were born, it was relatively easy to ignore the passage of time. My life changed remarkably little from year to year. My hobbies were the same, my lifestyle unaltered.
However, with the arrival of the roundfaced people, it has become impossible to ignore the hands on the clockface. Every day seems to bring something new with them, and just a quick glance at photographs taken only six months ago shows just how much has changed.
But it’s more than that. Everything suddenly seems finite. The indolent days of youth have gone. Days when I sat around in the university café chatting about nothing in particular seem to have vanished.
Ah well. Must get on.