Forward in Reverse

September 8, 2004

I noted in my last ezine that, as explorers, most of us regress as we age.

In After The Ecstasy, The Laundry, Jack Kornfield quotes a delightful poem that suggests life would be better if lived backwards:

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.