You Only Live Once

by Maxine Morrey

‘It’s always afterwards you think of all the things you wanted to talk about, or ask, isn’t it?’ ‘I think, a lot of the time, we assume we still have plenty of time to ask those questions.’ ‘That’s true. But we never really know how much time we have, do we?’ ‘No, we don’t,’ he said. ‘I guess that’s why, if we really want something, we just have to find a way of getting it, or at least of trying to get it. Then you’re never left with the what if.’