For Auld Lang Syne My Dear
Here I sit, on the brink of a new year wondering how quickly I got here...naturally reflecting on times long past. Yesterday I was eating Popsicles in Florida's summer heat on the curb of road with my neighbors across the street...no, wait-yesterday was Christmas morning when I was gifted my very own mountain bike!...ugh, hold on-yesterday I graduated college?...or was it the day Jeff and I crossed the threshold into our very own house?... It's amazing how the mind can take you from your earliest childhood memory through to the present in nearly an instant. Presently I feel that even the minutes currently passing are about as tangible as the stars in the sky. Fleeting and unyielding they all add up too quickly. But I suppose the sum of it all makes for the comforting atmosphere surrounding the discovery of a long lost memory. To stumble upon those from time to time is something that makes me happy. As for the times not so long past, I hold tight to lessons they've provide...