Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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yesterday the world and i were younger, and, for the most part, carefree. and only the good times matter when you ' re young. that was just a decade ago. sometimes i ran on serendipitous, sunny-warm days: on clear blue days when skies were mountains with strata of white and gray; on wet days when the wind put happy tears on my cheeks and eyelashes and the puddles beneath my feet were meant to be jumped over. i remember all the unimportant things; the really happy times that amount to only a few special moments of an entire lifetime. i recall another walk, a talk (l aughing-giddy talk), and then: honestly, we ought to be discussing something serious. (hey, stop laughing). we ought to read ' Time ' magazine and discuss something relevant . . . (you creep, stop laughing!) a few days later a ' Time ' magazine arrived in the mail with a poem: . . the time has come, ' the walrus said, ' to talk of many things: of ships and shoes and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings, of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings we philosophers were right about important issues . . . 4

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. . . then i saw that life was more than just having fun. the bad times became just as important as the good. now there are times when i feel loneliness as well as love, and the wounds of childhood bitterness heal less quickly; now there are times when i feel hateful as well as hopeful, as the resiliency of youth yields to the staidness of age; now those good times have been balanced by the bad and i am confused.