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We bought a new fake Christmas tree this season. The old one had the kind of branches you have to spend a gazillion hours poking into their very specific color-coded holes. By the time you are done, you are doubting your Christianity. And that's before you plug in the burned-out lights. We told the sales guy we wanted the kind of tree with hinged branches, which, after the festivities, you merely fold upward like praying hands before lugging the spruce back down to the basement. He was out of that particular style, and tried to convince us of the merits of the pokey-branch type. He had one himself, he explained, and it only took three hours to assemble it...he was about twenty-one years old. "That tree won't work for us," I explained. "We don't have that many good years left." If we have regrets after death, as I believe we will (perhaps only temporary regrets for those of us fortunate enough to find ourselves in heaven), it might be useful to imagine while on earth what form those regrets might take. It occurs to me that most of my regrets in eternity may center around my casual expenditure of that which eternity has effectively put to an end: time. When you know you're looking back on more than half your time on earth, it starts getting easier to give up pokey-branch Christmas trees.
Posted by Katy on 01/30/01 at 12:37 PM
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