Thank you.

Sometimes really great things happen. For a really short span of time. And you think, wow, that was awesome. And then, just like that, they're gone. And you wonder, what was the point? How do I get it back? It's not fair!

Maybe. But I think, its like a preview. Or better than a preview. Its the realization of a possibility. A taste of what can be. What will be. It's like being 13 years old, and your mom drops you off at the movie theatre and you're allowed to go to the movie with your best friend all by yourself. You buy your own ticket from your own money that you take out of your pocketbook that you just started carrying. You buy whatever candy or popcorn you want, cause its your money, and no one else can tell you what to buy. You can sit anywhere you want. For a few hours, you feel like what you've always wanted to be - an adult. Free. You don't realize the freedom you already have, being 13, you just see and taste the goodness of the adulthood you so desperately want to experience. And then your mom comes to pick you up, and you go home, and you have to do everything your parents say, once again. But you wait. and you wait. And you jump for those little moments, those little opportunities where you can get a taste of that freedom again, to get you by until finally, you're a real adult, and can live that world every day of your life.

And of course, like any wish and dream and taste of our desires, when we get what we want, its not always exactly what we expect. And we think about the times before we had what we wanted, or got to where we wanted to go, and we smile, because that was a different kind of happiness, a different kind of freedom.

And so I won't ask why, or what the point was. I'll thank whatever gods may be that you gave me the best taste of whats to come. I'll hold to that, until the next opportunity arises to find it. Thank you.