maupuia calling

So I’m 45 today. Almost assuredly half my life has gone. It seems only the blink of any eye ago that I was 25, living in London, having just met Debbie.

The blink of any eye. I can conjure up vivid memories of those days, so young. A whole life waiting, spread out before me.

And now I sit. 20 years later. The blink of an eye. Half a life trailing behind me. A life that still seems to have been spent waiting for something.

And in those 20 years? I’m studied, married, mortgaged and parented.

I was somewhere and they asked what’s something you’d bring back from the future to now. I said my great-grandchildren. I’ll never see them. I knew 2 of my great-grandparents. A chain stretching through time, through me, from my past to the future I had a hand in creating.

The blink of any eye.

Perhaps your children are the enduring legacy you leave to the world. Tomorrow my Dad is 70. It seems only the blink of an eye ago I was sitting on his knee listening to stories.

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