Selected Aphorisms #44

The forty-fourth installment in our immemorial new series.

When I was young, I used to take a baseball to the park, throw it as far as I could in one direction, walk to go get it, and then throw it right back where I came from. Actually – now that I think about it – actually, that wasn’t me who did that, but rather my friend Leo. When I was young, I used to just sit around and eat Devil Dogs while reading back issues of Car and Driver. Regardless of who did what, I think we can all agree that one thing remains certain: human life can very easily be described as “a carnival of emotions.”