And then you see a face. So young, so fresh, so full of life. Which is everything you once were and are not anymore. The twinkle in the eye, the joy in the laughter, energy that can illuminate your soul. And when she sang, it was like a choir of angels had descended from the heavens to enthrall you.
What really does age teach us anyway? To savour every moment and make the most of it. But now there is so little left to savour.
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It can be quite a dilemma not knowing what it is that will make you happy. No knowing what to go after.
Carly Simon. Don't know why but I just feel like listening to this right now. Used to play a lot on the radio back in Bahrain. Sometimes I want to go back there. Perhaps I will discover something I knew a long time ago and forgot.
What really does age teach us anyway? To savour every moment and make the most of it. But now there is so little left to savour.
***
It can be quite a dilemma not knowing what it is that will make you happy. No knowing what to go after.
Carly Simon. Don't know why but I just feel like listening to this right now. Used to play a lot on the radio back in Bahrain. Sometimes I want to go back there. Perhaps I will discover something I knew a long time ago and forgot.
8 comments:
I say that to myself pretty often :) @ "Perhaps I will discover something I knew a long time ago and forgot."
but will those same things make you happy now? shouldn't we search for things that would make us happy NOW instead of going back and looking for things that made us happy once upon a time?
funny thing this happiness...you'd think it's something special, all the importance and attention it gets...but like everything else it needs practise too...when you get used to being unhappy all the time...you forget how to be happy...maybe we should first unlearn how to be unhappy
Someone once rightly said that the future is no longer what it used to be. I still haven't been able to figure out if that's a good thing, or a bad thing, or neither.
..and most of us have forgotten how to savor the moments - we are too busy looking back or worrying about the future.
:)...and to think that ten years hence, you might miss what you have right now...
you were in bahrain? when?
send me your email id at daringdip@gmail.com...need to send you an invite.
go get laid man, you'll know what makes you happy ;)
cheers!
sarang
:)
i'm looking forward to a post twenty years from now, talking about the twinkle in your eye now.. sounds promising.
i wonder which is worse, figuring out the dilemma and being unable to do anything about it, or not figuring it out at all
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