Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

by Gordon Livingston

The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision. The slender threads of causality are rewoven and reinterpreted as we attempt to explain to ourselves and others how we became the people we are.

This person can be a parent, a first love, or a friend no longer here. Their perfection, like that of a funeral eulogy, is a function of selective memory that can no longer be tested by daily contact. They exist in a sort of distracting dream with which the people now in our lives cannot compete.