But because of the relentless nature of time, we can often forget that - although it seems to fly by - we can actually pack a lot of life milestones in along the way.
I headed down this philosophical tangent recently when completing the latest Census.
Five years since the last one really did not seem like much of a gap on face value when I first thought about it.
But in reality, I have packed an exorbitant amount of ‘life’ into what I assumed was very little ‘time’ - and it would have been much more if not for the global pandemic we are still muddling through.
Like last week, in 2016 my partner Grace and I were under the same roof for the Census - but at that stage it was the roof of a sharehouse and we had known each other for less than two months.
I was still working at a supermarket and moonlighting as a journalist on the weekends - when I wasn't trying to get a kick in the twos for Darley - and was pronouncing Nathalia as Nath-arr-lia and Mulwala as Mul-warr-la.
In the five years since then I've landed the job of my dreams as a full-time sports journalist, bought a house, had two children and tried to marry the girl of my dreams about three times now by my count.
There's been plenty of other milestones - and ‘life’ in general - packed into those five years of ‘time’ too.
I think it's something important to remember when we eventually hit the other side of this pandemic and the world returns to whatever normal looks like - especially those of us with young children.
You don't need a lot of ‘time’ to fit plenty of ‘life’ into your hour, day, week, month or year.
Tyler Maher is McPherson Media Group sports editor.
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