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The Scale Keeps Growing!

There was a time when my life was measured in days, weeks, months and years. Life was much simpler then. Things measured in small quantities and against small comparisons. Pleasures and sorrows presented smaller signposts in the path to growing up. I remember the time when I measured a decade in terms of lightyears and equated multiple decades to space travel. How times have changed. Today as I completed a decade at my workplace, it seems surreal that everything in my life these days seems to be measured in decades. Graduation, leaving home, moving here, marriage, kids; everything seems to have a larger scale in time. Age is a funny thing. When you are living it, it does not seem like it is happening to you. You still feel like a kid inside and wonder why people have started taking you much more seriously over the years. Until one day you wake and realize that while you still feel like a kid, everything in your life has scaled up. I am by no means regretful. As a matter of fact,