Nothing Twice – Wislawa Szymborska
Nothing can happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here impoverished and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you’re the planet’s biggest dunce, you can’t repeat the class in summer: this course is only offered once.
I read this a while back and saved it. I particularly like the line – “we leave without the chance to practice.” Given that, and given that “the course is offered only once,” it brings home the thought that there is little time or attention to be given to things like anger, jealousy, pettiness, and things of that ilk that have little value in life, including spending a second in thought about the Kardashians.
It occurs to me... 