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Sometimes I look back on my life

and see a series

of missed opportunities

Moments when,

had I chosen differently,

an entirely other experience would have begun . . .

for nothing in our experience is ever done

until we are . . .

Parallel universes?

Infinite iterations reiterating?

or maybe just the dreamer

dreaming

in a hall of mirrors.

In that in-between place

where the sands of awake-world beaches

are awash with the waves of dream-world seas

and time exists

only in the present tense

Therein lies Home!

And all one need remember . . .

is that Home is only ‘there’

when you’re forgetting that it’s ‘here’

And all those ‘missed opportunities’

appealing as they were . . .

were but the price paid to be here

Now.

Tim Konrad

Petaluma, CA

March 19, 2018

Why is it assumed that the “cost of living” will automatically increase over time? What are the reasons behind it?

It can’t have always been this way; if it had, accruing at current rates, no one today would be able to pay what it would cost for even the basic necessities required to survive.