Forward in Reverse

REVERSE LIVING

Life is tough.

It takes a lot of your time,

all your weekends,

and what do you get at the end of it?

Death, a great reward.

I think that the life cycle is all backwards.

You should die first, get it out of the way.

Then you live twenty years in an old-age home.

You are kicked out when you are too young.

You get a gold watch, you go to work.

You work forty years until you’re

young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You go to college,

you party until you’re ready for high school.

You become a little kid, you play,

you have no responsibilities,

you become a little boy or girl,

you go back into the womb,

you spend your last nine months floating.

And you finish off as a gleam in someone’s eye.

Maybe Dr Seuss had it right: adults are obsolescent kids. Or maybe success - TRUE success - is being able, at least sometimes, to bring the freshness of a kid to the adventure of adult living.

I know some adults who are experts in this. They are great folk, full of curiosity and love. OK, they may not have lived life backwards, but so what? When they die, they will shine on brighter and longer than any gleam.

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