Reflection of 2009

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
~Samuel Johnson,
in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770

Think about 2009. 365 days, 8,760 hours, over half a million minutes.
GONE! We can never reclaim them. We cannot purchase them. We can not reproduce them. 2009 is gone.

Possibilities are now missed opportunities. Dreams for 2009 have either been lived or lost. Accomplishments and failures have been defined and recorded.

It is gone. Think about it for a while.