Aspects

by John M. Ford

We can misspend time—hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse—but to ‘waste’ time—to get no motion at all, good or bad—to do that one would have to be not alive at all. Which, if you like, makes any untimely death the worst of wastes.”

Only mediocre conversations could be brought to an easy end. The intolerable and the important always found momentum to roll on.