The Place That Really Matters

Someone has written a little tongue-in-cheek piece about living our lives in reverse. “Life is tough,” it begins…

It takes a lot of your time,
all your weekends,
and what do you get at the end of it?
Death! — A great reward.

I think that the life-cycle is all backwards.
You should die first — get it out of the way.

Then you live twenty years in an old age home.
You get kicked out when you’re too young.
You get a gold watch.
You go to work.

You work forty years
until you’re young enough
to enjoy your retirement.

You go to college.
…