This short poem by Nobel Prize-winning poet Jaroslav Seifert contains a lot of truth, no?

This poem was translated by Ewald Osers:

Philosophy 

Remember the wise philosophers:
Life is but a moment.
And yet whenever we waited for our girlfriends
it was an eternity.

Now I find myself remembering those times of my youth when I would wait anxiously for a "yes" or "no," or even more dreadfully, for that "maybe" to come out of their mouths.  Funny how time runs so differently when the façades of eros are involved...