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80 Years In A Day By: Jeff Moore on 12/11/2002; 4:18 AM If I live to be 80, yet called it a day, what times would be set to some of the events that were notable in my life? I would have been born at 12:00 am I started walking at 12:18, and was speaking by 12:36. I started kindergarten at 1:36. My first guitar was given to me at 4:05. My teen years, like most of ours, were hard. I started smoking at 4:12, and shed my last tears at 4:18. I turned eighteen at 5:24, and graduated high school soon after, at 5:26. I wrote my first song at 5:27, discovering a new way to cry. I met my first love at 6:06, and made love for the first time at 6:09. She was gone, never to be seen again, by 6:30. My 21st birthday came at 6:18, long after my first drink, around 4:30. I met my wife at 6:51, and we were married at 7:00, on the dot. My mother died at 7:53, having only barely made it to her own 50th birthday a week before. My day seemed shorter then. I quit smoking at 8:46, as my first child was to be born at 8:47. Her sister, my second miracle, followed at 9:33. I finished my Masters degree, a different kind of miracle, at 10:34. Now it is 12:00pm. I am 40 years old at my noon. Could this really be the noon of my day? I hope to live much longer than my ponderings here allow. I might be fortunate to make even 80 years though. I look back over these musings and wonder at all of the moments left unpunctuated by a note. I think of all the time in between the notes I made, and how the significant things seemed to come more often earlier in my life. Finally, I wonder how the second half of my day will unfold. Will I succumb to a winters life? Will my afternoon be dark, and my night cold? Or, will I live it as though it were a summers day? Will my life remain bright, long into the warm evening hours? I can only know in time.
RE: 80 Years In A Day By: ScottN on 12/11/2002; 5:33 PM Jeff, That's awesome! I just turned forty last month. I was OK with it, but there was still a vague sense of unease. I think you nailed it with this one.
RE: 80 Years In A Day By: Brian Webber on 12/12/2002; 12:18 AM Wow. Just, wow. I hardly know what else to say. I mean, people generlaly make fun of me when I say things like this, but there just aren't any words or phrases that can acurately describe how beautiful that was.
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