A Bottle of Time

Past or present, which would you save? Leave it to writers and dreamers to make us think of the impossible – which, with continuing frequency, becomes only improbable then… who knows?

When you’re five, you wish you were older, big enough to ride a real bike, maybe. Then you wish you were old enough for a motor bike, then a car.

Or … what if you were old enough to have your own apartment, nobody telling you what to do? Old enough to be out of college and have a real job? Then … if only son-and-so would quit or retire and you could move into that office.

At what point would you freeze time, if you could? Legally, age 18 marks you as a grownup with childhood behind and a whole life ahead. You’re suddenly responsible for your own lunch money. Is that the place?

When I was 18, I wanted to be 29, so that’s what I told people for the next 11 years. Amazingly, they believed me. The year I actually turned 29, life did a big bang. It was as if my world vanished and was replaced by another.

Astrologers, as well as some psychologists, propose that each of us passes though a gate between the ages of 28 and 32. Within that gate, we make a major life decision that takes us in a new direction. If we’ve never married, it may happen then. If we are married, we may divorce during those years. No children? This might be when you decide to have your first. Still studying for your career? You might finally launch it?

Time doesn’t stop when you’re having fun. It doesn’t stop when you’re mired in misery.

If, like the songwriter Jim Croce, you could save time in a bottle, would it be today?

What could you do to make this a day you never want to forget?

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