Life's Momentum

I cannot believe how fast time is going! It seems like the days are longer because each one is loaded with ever consuming homework, exciting events, and amazing, growing relationships.  However, at the end of the week, I realize, "Wow! Another week has come and gone!" In my mind it's like a monkey swinging on vines in the jungle. At the top of one, swings swiftly down and up to grab hold of the next one, which allows for a moment's pause, then swiftly swinging back down and up to repeat the whole process.  Each little pause seems to come on a Sunday afternoon as I look back and realize, yet another week has concluded, then the rush of momentum comes with the week's events.  To grab hold of one vine would be ridiculous, for the momentum of more fun-loving people and events pull it forward as do the hands of time.  Grasping onto any experience of life, I am finding, is not worth the struggle of one's muscles such as the heart and mind, but rather enjoying the rush of life, the energy, the adrenalin, all in each moment they last is what we can afford to do.