The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Of course, this is the fundamental tenet of all sports: we must focus on the things we can change, and we cannot change the past or the future (I mean, without some Vulcan mind-melding power). Oddly, we teach our children this basic principle from the time they are very young: "You just missed an important free throw; now put it out of your mind." But we never tell our children that this principle is just as valid in our everyday interactions with people around us. It takes Enzo to teach us this simple lesson.