T.S Eliots Twenty Minute Lifetime

I think that T.S Eliot really says it best in Burnt Norton, "Time present and time past/Are both perhaps present in time future/And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present/All time is unredeemable." I think the concept of a twenty minute lifetime is extremely thought provoking. I'm sure we can all imagine a time when we were forced to grow up right that second and our life progressed ten years right before our eyes. Certainly, there are also more mundane examples such as my shirt folding experience I previously blogged about, but I also think there are more romantically beautiful ones. In fact, I think that the idea that boy meets girl boy and girl fall in love in a single day, boy leaves girl would be quite the perfect twenty minute lifetime story. But I'm sure it's all been done before.