Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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A little impatient with ourselves, perhaps now is the time that we turn to the other important diversions— important anyway to the mainstream of living. We try to balance ourselves out with causes, with accruement of acquaintances. We carry a picket or tutor a child. We discuss a world crisis one day in the living room with a girl whose name we didn't know until that day. Time. Too much time. Time. Too little time. It is as we get older, perhaps, that we learn how to use it, how to bend it to our will to make it serve us. And then there is the final time— not final in an absolute sense (Oh God, we privately demand, do not let there be a final time), but final in the sense that we have terminated what we already are feeling has been too transient a term here— there is that time when we have come to know the central question. And it is no longer “What am I?” but “What am I to be?” 9