We may very

    At 23℃ with a breeze of 3 to 5 miles per hour and bright sunshine, the weather forecast was, in the simples of terms, fantastic. So was the fact that having taken an unscheduled day off work on Friday for absolutely no rhyme or reason, I had mostly (mostly) caught up on some sleep and was quite reasonably rested.

    So...I attended a funeral the other day. I barely remember the last time I attended a funeral, many years ago. That was for a person who’d lived a full life and saw close to 90 years before calling it quits. This guy, on the other hand, was 40. He’d been on the liver transplant list ever since I’d known him, about the last two years of his life. He never got one. He and I were usually the

    “...Now it’s been ten years since we’ve been on our own

    And moss grows fat on a rolling stone,

    But that’s not how it used to be...”

 

Friends gather. Laughter all around. Tall buildings. Breathtaking views. Candlelight dinners. Romantic dances. Power lunches. World changing meetings. Fat albums. Numberless memories.

 

    “...I’m ninety-nine for a moment

    Dying for just a moment

    

    A somewhat imperceptible corollary of the impact theory is that there is one and only one possible outcome given a certain set of events. As summarized in the introduction to the impact theory, the basic statement of the impact theory can be understood by imagining a ball on a pool table. The location of the ball at any given point of time is the net result of the sum total of all impulses