Growing pains

The girl laughs politely as the older lady peaks inside the carriage. "Wow, you have a baby now. I remember when you were little!"

"Yup", the girl say. She seems matter of fact. Not at all surprised by the fact that she grew up, got married and had a baby.

We are enthralled by the passage of time. It falls through our fingers like grains of sand. The older we get the more we say, wow, look how big you've grown! But we forget that we too have grown.

Somehow we think that the world stand still while we get older.

But then I see my neighbor whom I remember as a baby, and she is old enough to be married with her own kids. And I feel like saying, wow, look how big you've grown!

When did I stop being the one marveled at, and become the marvelee?

Time really does pass fast. It always hits me when I realize little kids have grown up.

Then I realize that I've grown up too.