WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN TIME

At least that's what a song from the '60's told us. IS THAT ALL THERE IS? was another one of that same era. Along with TIME IS ON MY SIDE. Buttressed by I CAN'T WAIT FOREVER. So what is it? If the Decade of the '60's where we had all the answers is ambivalent, then how am I supposed to know?

Chicago, the group not the city, posed perhaps the best time question, DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS Followed by the lyric "Does anybody really care" In one of the strangest songs of the decade, in the last '60's we were even told about MACARTHUR'S PARK that WAS MELTING IN THE DARK Crazy times, you bet. When even one group took the name for themselves from time--Strawberry Alarm Clock.

So, what are my thoughts today about time? Every age is golden. Every age is perfect. Time is our most valuable resource. Yet we know how we waste it. How we look at a classroom clock and wish our lives away. How we live for the weekends. For 104 days a year while we wish 261 would pass quickly. We even mark mid-week as Hump Day.

We can't wait to finish schooling so we can get out in the real world. Then many of us reflect back to those good old days that we were in school. We want both our parents and our kids to leave us alone. They have or will. THE CAT'S IN THE CRADLE is perhaps the truest of all the 60's songs about time

So now you're enlightened and you'll go out and cherish every minute of every day. Right? Sure, we make that vow after every friend or family member passes away all too soon. But will we change? Even for one day? Because these are THE TIMES OF OUR LIVES.

It's up to us, and of course, Father Time.