when I look back on my life - to cherished memories of my youth, spent with beautiful family members long-gone, to childhood friends from my home country whom I've lost contact with years ago - I am reminded of the opening screen to Star Wars:

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."

cold walks to primary school;

warm Christmas' with my grandparents;

happy times spent with best friends;

unbearable sadness when I was bullied

memories for me feel like far off distant places;

they feel locked in a location far, far away

if only for the fact that linear time marches on, and they don't exist anymore

my soul has a hard time reconciling this

we're all here, now;

make it count