Change is the essence of our lives, @slowwalker. We want to stop things because we can't know things in motion--only things at rest.

People use metaphors to describe this saying, 'Time flies', but this is nonsense. The fact is we are fallible and can't bear very much reality.

I leave you with these lines from Louis Mac Neice:

All is a dilettante’s lie.
Timés face is not stone nor still his wings,
Our mind, being dead, wishes to have time die
For we being ghosts cannot catch hold of things.