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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (31784)	3/8/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<< Was just hob-nobb'in and caught your post about your last notch. Was wondering if the point of adding was somehow substantially different than it was last year or the year before that? Whats the big deal? Are you going to feel an even greater amount of what you felt this time the next time? Not trying to be insensitive, but I don't see what the big deal would be from year to the next unless you know for a fact when the expiration date is to come. (hadn't read any farther down the string when I posted)>> Sorry I'm answering so late, Mike! Anyway, I suspect you haven't hit any huge milestones yet (because I felt the same way you did until they did). They come along, and even though most people discount them ahead of time as being insignificant--after all, you are only a day older than you were yesterday--they kind of sneak up and loom large anyway. I felt the same way about my daughter's graduation from eighth grade. I was happy until the ceremony started, and then a lot of realizations about years passing just hit me in the head and I couldn't stop crying. And my daughter said the slide show of all the children as babies, and as kindergarteners marching in costume at Halloween, and on third grade camping trips, was the saddest thing she had ever seen. Time passing is sad; it means that there is less of life ahead than there was. Milestones force us to confront this for a few moments or days, and then we regain our equilibrium, and get back into the unexamined moment, where most of us exist most of the time.