Behind these tired eyes...

I am now 27 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. I can still remember how I once gazed into the future, thinking that it's still so far away, yet here I am now, fully living it. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful.