BY REX C. CATUBIG
CAUGHT IN TIME
While it is popularly believed that the senses are dulled as one ages, I find that the opposite is actually true: Age sharpens the senses and enhances one’s perception of things. Simply said, one becomes acutely sensitive to the changes around him. And one gets to recognize and appreciate better those that wanton youth takes for granted.
There was a movie that essayed the doomed romance of a terminally ill couple. Their relationship that’s only a few days old, gave an insightful glimpse of how they grappled with imminent death at the same time that they showed us a unique perspective of life.
As the ill-starred girlfriend pointed out apropos the brevity of their romance: “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”