Answer:
I make things short but I am pretty long myself
Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past, for a child, I last forever, for adults, I'm gone too fast.
Sometimes I annoy you, sometimes you can't live without me. But no matter how hard you try, you can't destroy me. What am I?
I shave several times a day, yet I still have a beard. What am I?
I am an English word with 3 consecutive double letters.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.