Happy Birthday?

Yesterday I was reminded of how many years I have been given on this planet. The time speeds on faster and faster with each passing year. I remember how long I seemed to have to wait for Christmas morning to arrive. Weeks seemed like an eternity and the days just dragged on and on. Time just didn't move faster enough. Just a few weeks ago I was introduced to facebook. I looked at this and sites like this site as a teeny-boppers haven, as a place to socialize and basically just another way to communicate without actually having to verbal communicate. As I started to find friends from past lives I was amazed at the speed my life was going at. It's been over 15 years since I have graduated high school. The days of feeling like Christmas is never going to come are over. My childhood was but a vapor and I have come full force into adulthood. I find myself with a wife, 2 children, 3 pets, 2 cars and a mortgage. Don't get me wrong, they are not penalties but rather rewards (except maybe the 2 cats). I look at my children and see them develop and get excited for Christmas just as I did when I was a boy their age. Their days drag on as if it will never come but before I can almost even blink they will be in high school and college and planning their careers and weddings and I will be coming home to a much quieter house. Time is one thing you can never be guaranteed of and one thing that you can not buy more of - once you have had your allotted amount you breathe your last breathe and sigh your last sigh here on earth. After that your eternity is spent with your creator or eternal separated from Him. I know it's basically impossible to live life like it's your last day everyday but with mine speeding by faster and faster, hyper-warping toward some end destination (date and time unknown) I would like to be able to say that the football game on TV or some work report or some new gadget or some yard chore was not more important than spending my time wrestling on the floor with my boys or building a fort in the back yard or reading stories or making up my own at bedtime. So happy birthday middle-aged man - are you misspending your children's youth? Are you misspending your life on the things that are meaningless and trivial? So my birthday wish for myself is to take stock of my own life and to make sure I am making the most of the time my creator has given me.