If you live in the United States, things are bumpy right now.
So much is happening and changing that it’s easy to lose perspective.
(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
Consider this:
Former news anchor Dan Rather is, as I write, 93. That means he has lived through almost 40% of the entire history of his nation, in its current political form.
That makes him, technically, a contemporary of Thomas Edison, who was still alive when Rather was born. Edison, if he had been in the right place at the right time could, conceivably have bumped into Alexander Hamilton’s widow Eliza, right up until he was 7 years old.
You could call Dan Rather up, and be talking to a man who could have been held as a baby by man who might have met Eliza Hamilton, widow of a founding father of his country.
Time After Time
Things that you think were a long time ago, really weren’t that long ago, even in terms of individual human lives.
And let’s not even talk about geological or astronomical time scales.
The moment you are living in right now is both an undetectable blip in the history of the universe AND a moment of immense consequence because it is the only moment you can influence.
And isn’t that kind of great?