These days, every time I'm on Facebook, I'm filled with a sense of amusement and awe, to see familiar faces of people from long past. My old friends and cousins now look exactly like their parents, as when I had first met them, decades ago. And their tiny children now look exactly like my old friends and cousins, from when I had first known them, decades ago. The familiarity of these faces, and expressions, and mannerisms, remind me that life, indeed, is a circle. It has all happened before. It will all happen again. The same play is running in an infinite loop. Only our roles change with the passage of time. As we welcome this new year, here's to us adapting to our new characters. And here's to those who taught us how to play them.
Happy New Year 2022!
