The Present of the Present

Your life is like a series of rooms connected by the hall of Time. Behind you stretches a long line of past places, rooms you’ve lived and loved in, rooms you’ve suffered and rejoiced in, some you would give everything to reenter, others you would give everything not to reenter, none of which you can reenter. Before you, the hallway branches in a hundred directions, presenting a parade of rooms you might move through, some you plan to get into, others you desperately want to avoid, all of them h