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Created on: April 18, 2008
Here we are, waiting for some grand illusion.
Wondering how it will appear before us.
Will it be in a puff of smoke, followed by a
loud explosion?
Or will it be some quiet little voice hiding
behind some shrub whispering, "hi there".
It seems to me that all of our lives are
spent aimlessly drifting from one moment to
the next,hoping our deepest hopes and dreams,
our desires and goals will be reached.
Alas, when we are sitting at the end of our
lives, with whatever memory we have left,we
ask ourselves that eternal,painful question:
"I wonder what would have happened IF..."
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