Class of 64

 

I don’t remember all the kids who signed my yearbook, and it was so important at the time.  I was completely unaware of just how fast the big hand was moving.  Turns out, the most important thing of all, they didn’t teach.

None of the textbooks talked about the limited amount of time we have on earth.  The topic was never on any test.  How foolish it was to spend so much time on history.  Every second that passes pushes us deeper into it.

I bet even today’s curriculum doesn’t address it.  Technology, that is the important topic of the day, not how little time we have here.  If there were a class on our longevity, or lack of it, the focus should be on the exchange rate.  Take stock of all your possessions, your house, your car, your clothes, everything.  You actually own none of it.

We are all renters.  Everything gets passed on to the next person once we die.  It all just goes away.  It is that rate of exchange that should be taught in school.  We are all rotated through this process, and rather quickly.  We spend our time accumulating wealth, only to pass it along to the next in line.

Your two most valuable items are your memory and your photographs.  Those are the only things that stick with you throughout time, no matter how fast the big hand is spinning.  Come to think of it, maybe school was showing it to us.  They put it all in a book of pictures and autographs.  How clever.