Dec 2020
MOMENTS AND MEMORIES
If you were able to itemize every experience you ever had in your lifetime, the list would be virtually endless. But when you just reflect on your life, those moments, the special moments, might be only a few. Those you fell in love with; the time, if once, your last-second shot that won the game; a line or two you wrote that was so eloquent, your teacher praised you, and so on. In prep school, we all were required to read and study the English romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelly. But we were not required to read all their poems, but study only a few by each. If you lived, let's say, 80 years, that would mean you lived almost 30,000 days. How many of those days do you think you could remember? My guess: only a few. More moments we could remember than days. They are what our lives add up to: moments and memories. Not days, nor weeks, nor months, nor years.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS
If you were able to itemize every experience you ever had in your lifetime, the list would be virtually endless. But when you just reflect on your life, those moments, the special moments, might be only a few. Those you fell in love with; the time, if once, your last-second shot that won the game; a line or two you wrote that was so eloquent, your teacher praised you, and so on. In prep school, we all were required to read and study the English romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelly. But we were not required to read all their poems, but study only a few by each. If you lived, let's say, 80 years, that would mean you lived almost 30,000 days. How many of those days do you think you could remember? My guess: only a few. More moments we could remember than days. They are what our lives add up to: moments and memories. Not days, nor weeks, nor months, nor years.
TOD HOWARD HAWKS
