31 Days, 31 Memories - Day 27

[bironic]

Does anyone remember this exchange from Brave New World, where everyone is medicated to want little and get everything they do want immediately? --"Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment

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[kabal42]

Every time I hear something like this, I always want to list all those who went ahead of me. It's strange, but by now I really like to recall them all once in a while in that bitter-sweet way.

I'm going with this one for today:
I was elected President of Danske Gymnasieelevers Sammenslutning - the National Student's Congress, I guess you could call it - when I was nearly 19.
J. who lived across the road from me was the first person to introduce me to student politics when I was 14. She was 2 years older than me.
I got sick when I returned from the Congress that elected me and couldn't get out of bed for nearly a week. I got back Monday morning. On Friday my mother visited me and told me that J. had died the day I was elected. She was nearly 21 and just dropped dead for no reason.

[bironic]

Oh, how awful. And what support for the argument that there's a balance of good and bad in life.

I hope you don't take this as disrespect for your friend -- it's a terrible thing to have happened -- but one of the things I'm loving about this project is the wonderful, amazing stories we all have and are sharing in just a few spare sentences each.

[kabal42]

Yes it is. It also felt like a bad omen if there ever was one.

I don't. I agree too; it really is amazing to get into the fantastic stories of another life in this fashion.

[catilinarian]

Yes, that's what I'm really enjoying about the project, too.

[bironic]

Hooray! Will mention it in the recap when we're finished.