2015

It is, while staring at a clock, incomprehensible that so much time as a year could pass. How weird it must feel for humans to realize that most of what they are living today won't be remembered.

It then is left to the mind to decide what's worth keeping. He remembered meeting her. He remembered discovery and laughter and play. Seeing beauty, learning.

It is often said the human brain is best at remembering faces. He could see so many of them now in reflection. Each was smiling. One was celebrating a soccer game. Another discussed backpacking through Europe. The most significant asked how it felt to lose that ping pong game.

A lot of those people would soon be gone but they make him up now. They are him, or at least the reason he's here. In just being themselves they make his life enjoyable and he loves them for it.

He lived with the resolution to be that someone for somebody else, and wondered how many people looked back on their years and remembered him smiling.