The future has a way of arriving unannounced ... to make tomorrow a sole spring of action is a folly which deludes us all through life with endless expectation, and leaves us at death without the thorough enjoyment of a single hour ..."And then when late in life, a man looks back over the path traversed, a cold wind sweeps over the fading landscape and he feels somehow that he has missed it all. For the reality of life, we learn too late, is in the living tissue of it from day to day, not in the expectation of better, nor in the fear of worse. These two things, to be always looking ahead and to worry over things that haven't yet happened and very likely won't happen -- those take the very essence out of life" ... Stephen Leacock (1869-1944), Canadian economist and humourist
