Time, Considered as a Helix of "Aaargh, where did it all go?"

[desperance]

Please to tell me that everyone does this: that you all watch something approach from afar and think, there's lots of time, there's lots of time, there's... OMGWTF there's no time left at all!!

I had such plans, so many things I meant to do before I left; and now I will have to leave most of them undone. Eek. It is very bad.