oh yes, happy birthday to me.. can't we pretend i'm still 21?

i am now a quarter of a century old.
damn.
life has flown past me as i've gotten up in age.
seems like when i passed from high-school everything accelerated.
i don't quite understand what happened through that transition?

i look back to when i graduated university.
it feels like a year ago, if that.
but in reality it's been 3 years.
3 years?!@ what?

sure i've done a lot in that short time,
but i don't see 3 years going by as if i merely blinked.
and now here, in jamaica, a year has passed like nothing.
only one year remains and that freaks me out.

i feel i have only just settled in.
i'm not ready to leave yet.
i have a life here.
i have people i care about
and people that care about me.

time is ridiculous.
this year i want a time machine for my birthday.
let me know if you can work something out.
thanks.