Friday, July 07, 2006

The Last Day

At 8:30 pm, I was born.

This was significant once a year for 21 years in a row.

Today is the last day, afterwhich... significant no longer.

"All downhill," as they say.

But it was a gentle, modest, unassuming slope up.

And down, most probably the same.

Have I learned anything in 21 years to take forward with me?

Some fundamental lesson that only a lived life can teach?

What combined wisdom can I draw from the years of infancy, childhood, adolescence, and now, adulthood?

Perhaps this:

Love... but don't talk to strangers.

And this:

Relax.