Romans go home

Twitter just keeps giving….

“Appreciate the time that you have now. As every second passes, you’ll never be that young ever again.”

I question the ‘that’. I would have used ‘as’.

But what do I know? Me and grammar (gic) are like two siblings separated at birth.

The culprit is the state government of NSW, so we may as well call ourselves the grammatically lost generation.

Six English teachers in six years of high school and hardly a tense taught in anger.

I got substantially more grammar in those useless Latin classes.

To be fair though, I am possibly an unreliable witness in matters of amisit grammatica.

Still I can feel a class action coming on. Think of those hundreds of thousands of state school graduates that are simply too embarrassed to Tweet?

Lost earnings could be argued, straight up, because, as we all know, social media is now the number one tool for acquiring customers.

Back to the Tweet in question. What my well-intentioned fellow state school graduate meant to say was:

“Appreciate every second before it passes; you’ll never have it again.”

That’s sort of depressing really.

And, indeed, you could spend a second appreciating a second and never end up doing anything in life.

Nuh, thought about it now, life is best lived with minimal real time reflection and a Hunter S.-like Gestaltian flourish.

“Appreciate time; don’t waste time appreciating every second as it passes.”

You can always contemplate it and write about it when you break a leg.