Things Change More Slowly than People
On my recent trip to visit family and familiar places, I was struck by a realization that may strike you as fairly obvious. Things -- like sidewalks and houses and streets and schools and gravestones -- don't really change very much at all in 40 or so years, while people -- like children and parents-- change dramatically. For some reason I was fully expecting the little town I grew up in, Uxbridge, to be radically changed -- full of high rises or some such urban blight. In fact, mostly everything, including the house I grew up in, is pretty much the same as it ever was. My elementary school is now an early learning center and is named after my first grade teacher, Mrs. Blanchard. How cool is that? My aunt even lives right where she always has, still. For some reason, I was even moved by the unrepaired sidewalk I used to walk to school on. I guess I was closer to the ground then, but it brought back strong, long-forgotten memories.
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