Its Always Ticking

So I’ve been in Chile for almost three months now. The time has passed by extremely fast but that’s the nature of time.

 

Time never stops but only proceeds

It’s our marker

An invisible sharpie that never stops being written with

Time is life and life is time

We cannot fight it

But acquiesce to its unstoppable rhythm

The best players of time can juggle it well

Like Ronaldinho on a break-away pass

As for me in order to score my goals I must use that sharpie

And write my way into the future

 

So like I was trying to say time has gone by so fast since I’ve been here and it looks as if July is going to arrive sooner than expected this year. For the amount of time I’ve been here I have learned so much but at the same time I feel I am nowhere near I would like to be in terms of language proficiency. I know by the end of my time here in Chile my abilities will advance tenfold but what I have to keep reminding myself is learning a language takes time. For example it has taken me over twenty years to develop my English proficiency and yet I feel I have so much to ameliorate. With that in mind I have accepted that I am not going to be able learn Spanish (Castellano) to my desired level in less than 7 months time (and as of now less than 4). So in hindsight when I thought 7 months was going to be a long time it turns out that the invisible sharpie of life is writing a little bit faster in this part of the world. All in all what does this mean? ¡Disfrutalo!