Why do we sometimes hang onto something harder when we feel it will imminently vanish from our control? Is it to do with appreciation or desperation? Are we all control freaks?
On the day one gets their first job, graduates from school, gets married, retires, attends their first funeral, are those landmark days that change everything? Or is simply a day of commemoration? And what about the entire eras of your life can go by without commemoration, because they were somewhat unassuming or not socially recognized or unknown to the world?Leaving prison, paying off their mortgage, buying their child’s first gift. Those are the days that deserve the cap and gown, the handshake with the Chancellor and the cheers from the crowd.
Timbuktu: a city in the Western African country of Mali. Known for having been designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1988. Contains some of the oldest mosques in Western Africa.
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