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Library of Life

by
Mark Rogers

Fate is the librarian of our bibliophilic lives. It will open our existence at perhaps a preface or dedication page that may or may not exist. It will set the stage for the events that unfold as we journey our table of contents of events. Our life begins its evolution as destiny opens to page one, chapter one. Here the stage is set for what can or cannot happen along our endurance of trial and tribulations. There may be a footnote or two that will aid us in the understanding of our directions. And index cards will be placed in our personal file to monitor events as they mature.

As some point, a crocheted book mark or keepsake will be placed along the chapters to put us in a standing mode and hold our place as we trudge along. This allows us to rest and take a deep breath and rethink our thoughts of what has been lived within the volume of our life.

The Dewey Decimal System of existence will place us in order of biographies according to our name as author and subject matter, with its own synopsis. The card catalogue of myth and reality will hold all our lives as volumes for perusing, reflecting, but frozen in time are our past and histories. Volumes may be added as life is endured, enjoyed and spent.

Our life as a book sits upon the shelf of a bygone time--now, and of the future world. Our life is a literary and artistic periodical of our choosing with the hand of kismet on our shoulder.

It someone were to do a book review of your life, what would be the allotment of knowledge they would learn in putting pen to paper? Simple and unassuming? Mediocre and partial? Ravished and a path of brilliance? All of our lives will bear points of all these references. Fate will place us, destiny will direct us, on the shelf of the library of life.

March 28, 1999

Mark Edward Rogers