Wake Me Up

I heard this song on the radio today:

Feeling my way through the darkness
Guided by a beating heart
I can't tell where the journey will end
But I know where to start

They tell me I'm too young to understand
They say I'm caught up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes
Well that's fine by me

So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn't know I was lost

...and it reminded me of two things:

1) I am wiser, I am older. There's no more time to waste. The time to be awake is now; and

2) My daughter saying, as Christmas break drew to a close, that she wished we could just build a time machine, and get in it and go to Mexico (which we're doing in April) and then to the Galapagos (which they're doing in July with their Dad) and then to Maine (which we're hoping to do this summer). I know it sucks when vacations come to a close, but I feel like she's pretty young to be living for vacations.

She's having a rough year at school, and it hasn't been easy on any of us, but I'm trying to just be with it, because:

I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands...