One of the many stark realities that has stunned me as an adult is how much time speeds up as you get older. When you’re a kid, it seems like you have to power through a whole lifetime in the last month of school before summer vacation. Fast forward twenty years, and an entire year flashes by in the blink of an eye. 

What with us all having but one short and precious life, this should probably be a wake up call to be doing those things that we really want to be doing. Much as looking at memes is fun, I’m going to hazard a guess that it isn’t exactly your calling. So, we’ve put a few of them in convenient listicle form so you can try to make the process quicker. It might not work, but at least you can pretend you tried to optimize the process. That still counts!