reliving 
is not living at all. 
it is 
an academic exercise, at best. 

re-feeling 
can be addictive, like morphine -- 
and in the same way, 
it dulls our ability to sense 
the here and the now. 

it is hard to live 
when we believe that 
our best is behind us; 
but that is making 
the best the enemy of the good -- 

there is good ahead 
there is good now 
there is good 

there is