Re: Why we do it
- From: Elliot Richmond <xmrichmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:59:48 -0500
On Sun, 04 May 2008 22:35:00 -0500, Janet Wilder
<kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Grab the moment. Life is short.
Yeah, what Janet said.
I know many people, friends and family both, who have been waiting for
the right time to "take that big vacation." Some do. But many let life
slide away while waiting to have enough money, or time.
Life is a series of choices we make. We never choose to do stupid or
wrong things, but they sometimes happen anyway.
Some time back, I made the conscious decision to travel with my wife,
daughters, or both. Whoever was free to go. I am sure that my dear
wife was jealous when my youngest daughter and I took off for a week
of backpacking in Big Bend. It was the wrong time of year and we did
not really have the money but we took off anyway and added it to the
list of trips we made together. Now she is gone, but I have those
precious memories to treasure.
We will make more memories. In a few days, Kathy (my wife) and I are
headed out to our favorite spot in all the world, Big Bend of course,
to try out our little trailer. (I will take pictures and post them
somewhere.) It will the first time in 41 years of marriage that we
have gone somewhere together, just the two of us.
It may be the wrong time and we may not have quite enough money, but
we choose to "seize the day."
Or as Horace puts it:
dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
While we speak, time is envious and
is running away from us. Pluck the day, trusting little in the future.
Elliot Richmond
Itinerant astronomy teacher
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