Impressionism

Sometimes.
Just sometimes,
You might wonder
How well you dressed up for a wedding party.
How you graduated.
How you moved into your first home.
How delicious a birthday cake was.
How you got your driver's license.
It all felt exhilarating and so impressionable-
Moments for life!

Until you have perspective of them
from the viewpoint of what can crush them
with their weight of actual eternity - 

like a coup, death or a pandemic.

Only then you know how fleeting everything is.

What remains are sunsets and starlight.