This is from the eulogy of Ira Berkow, sports editor of the The New York Times for Cookie Lavagetto, from many years back:
“Cookie Lavagetto, who died at age 77 in his sleep Friday morning at his home in Orinda, California, was famous for one thing. He was the Brooklyn Dodger who struck a celebrated pinch-hit in the 1947 World Series. Thoughts of Lavagetto the ballplayer led to the notion….that great moments don’t last as long as they used to.”
“The reason I decided at first, was me. The older I became, the quicker life goes. More events are stuffed into a shrinking time frame. In the grade-school years, a summer vacation lasted forever. Now a summer zips by nearly like a weekend…”
“There are still a lot of great achievements going on all over the place these days…but somehow they fail to stick in the brain as they once did. Who won Wimbledon last year? Who’d they beat?...The reason is not old age or amnesia, necessarily; it’s the glut of events…”
Life flies and it is easy to be overwhelmed by life and its myriad events, especially in this fast paced technological universe.
Do good things.
Practice righteousness.
Do tzedaka.
Study Torah.
All these things place life in perspective and give it meaning.
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