resonance

a friend quoted this:
"For we are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. 'How he's grown!' we exclaim, 'how time flies!' as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal." C.S. Lewis

then said this:
"I can never seem to get reconciled to making sense of this existence where there is past and present...presence and absence."

i concur. though he was speaking of absence in the sense of death, it made me think of the ache that constantly exists in me for people and countries. i think there will come a time when we are wholly present everywhere at all times. that is something extraordinary to look forward to.