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It's a disturbing facet of human nature that two individuals can share supremely intimate moments with one another and later drift apart to the point where they no longer talk, and would even avoid one another in the street.

Does it not dishonour our sentiments in these moments to pretend like they never happened? Are moments in time not entities too? Like historic pieces of art or scripture, do they not deserve respect? Not to acknowledge them at all seems cruel. Cruel to more than just one another.

Of course, we don't really forget these moments, we just bury them deeper and deeper. Sentiments wither but they do not die. And at some point we may find a part of ourselves longing for those moments and mourning their loss, reaching out in our minds and hoping that by remembering and feeling, somehow the people we shared them with will hear us, wherever they are...

Daniel Metcalfe

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