Randall and Claire Nathan went to see their granddaughter, Betsy, play vollyball. [See "Betsy Joins a Team," 1-26-10] Betsy is tall and beautiful. She is also new to vollyball. But she was quite good, as 8th grade girls go.
Claire and Randall both marveled at Betsy and her teammates. They usually didn't know where the ball would go when they hit it, but they leaped around the floor with such quickness and flexibility. It took Randall and Claire longer to get down out of the stands than it took the vollyball girls to play a game.
Randall could remember when he had been that age, playing basketball and baseball. He had been that flexible. He could play all day. He thought it would last forever.
Now he sits in the stands, and is glad to have someone to watch, to remind him of when he could play all day, and think that the days were never long enough, but that they would last forever.
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"Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day...." Ah yes. Sweet bird of youth. It behooves us to spend those days well.
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