Hence, writes Gilmour and Wright, “The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.” Just when a person thinks the moment is here, that he or she can “seize” it, it “slips away,” becoming the past. In the words of a Latin saying, Termpus fugit, “Time flies.” It goes by quickly. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. For instance, David Gilmour and Richard Wright write, “You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. I also went on to read to my students some of the lyrics from “Time,” a song by Pink Floyd, on the album Dark Side of the Moon (1973). I read that text in my class the students rejoiced at the sacred author’s words.
'You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth' (Ecclesiastes 11:9a, NIV).
