Perhaps It Is Indeed Time

And If These Incidents Now Seem Full Of Significance And All Of A Piece, It's Probably Because I'm Looking At Them In The Light Of What Came Later.

After All, What Can We Ever Gain In Forever Looking Back And Blaming Ourselves If Our Lives Have Not Turned Out Quite As We Might Have Wished?

…it’s Hard To Appreciate The Beauty Of A World When One Doubts Its Very Validity….but I’ve Long Since Lost All Such Doubts, Ono,’ He Continued. ‘when I Am An Old Man, When I Look Back Over My Life And See I Have Devoted It To The Task Of Capturing The Unique Beauty Of That World, I Believe I Will Be Well Satisfied. And No Man Will Make Me Believe I’ve Wasted My Time.

I Can See,’ Miss Emily Said, ‘that It Might Look As Though You Were Simply Pawns In A Game. It Can Certainly Be Looked At Like That. But Think Of It. You Were Lucky Pawns. There Was A Certain Climate And Now It’s Gone. You Have To Accept That Sometimes That’s How Things Happen In The World. People’s Opinions, Their Feelings, They Go One Way, Then The Other. It Just So Happens You Grew Up At A Certain Point In This Process.’ ‘it Might Be Just Some Trend That Came And Went,’ I Said. ‘but For Us, It’s Our Life.

I Have The Feeling Of This Completely Alternative Person I Should Have Become. There Was Another Life That I Might Have Had, But I’m Having This One.