Brookfield Central High School - Legend Yearbook (Brookfield, WI)

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Epilogue oloslng odlnfinitunn... The Endless Performance Sports are Endless. . , Tell me Why. . . The Endless Beginning . . . The End ofa Performance . . . Where will you be tomorrow? To answer this question, you must know where you are, what you are, and who you are today. The situations, trials, and triumphs of the past have determined what your complete identity is at this moment, and just as your past has molded your present so will what is your present form your future, for what are past, present, and future, but words used relative to the life span of a human, each flowing into the other as time progresses. Time is endlessly moving into the future, and as the present arrives from the future's dim expanses you reach out to grasp it in expectation of what it holds for you. But as you capture it it slips into the past, pushed on by the ceaseless movement of time. As time moves onward the future becomes the present, with the present becoming the past. Only the past with its infinity of yesterdays maintains its identity, being the thing that lives and history are formed from. So, what you are today will become what you were yesterday as time moves on. From moment to moment, day to day, and lifetime to lifetime, time succeeds itself in a never ending pattern which is this - things are born and things die, things are created and things are destroyed, and time moves on. Everything and everyone fits into time's cold framework. The phases of your life will arrive as they will, and though you may attempt to avoid them, they will always fall upon you. You must seize the moment and make of your life what you want when the time comes, or you will be left searching for the life you could have lived, dreaming empty handed about what could have been. As you leave the relative safety of childhood and High School and enter the vague dream of youth called adulthood, you must decide if you are to be the master of your destiny and be what you want, or stand idly by and watch life pass you by. The intri- cate relationships of events which will decide what you will be must be dictated by you if you are to be what you want to be. Since your life is in essence one endless performance with its separate phases woven together by a myriad of occurrences and experiences from the past, and the past is formed from the present and future, you can not ignore the reality of the present and the hopes of the future, or you will live a life as a lesser per- sonthan you could have been. You must be aware of the reality of your existence, for existence is endlessly living. Endlessly striving. Endlessly performing. Closing f 253

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