Memories

Memories are like chocolate: bitter sweet and melting softly away, leaving just a lingering aftertaste that isn't as enticing as the real thing.
People come and go. Life is a steady stream of time. The water can be still, bleakly stretching into the future. Or, you might be tossed about in a turbulent flurry with harsh temperatures and stinging saltiness on your face. And then there are the beautiful spaces in time where the light glows on your face and the water gently tugs you towards a horizon streaked with the colors of a sunset.
But anyway you look at it, you are moving forward. Sometimes, almost always unexpectedly, a taste, a smell, a sound triggers a memory. You taste all of it's sweetness... you can feel the warmth on your face, you can picture those eyes, you can remember that feeling...but all too soon the sweetness turns bitter, for it is a place far removed and a person long gone.
How much should we look back? How much should we anticipate the future?
Time moves us on...all too quickly. So take it all in now. Embrace it. This moment. It might be a sweet memory needed in the bleak future, or it might be a painful one that causes you to move towards a hopeful horizon.