Time Gone By
Glancing at the clock, James was amazed at how quickly the evening had slipped away. It felt as if the passing of time had stalled when they were talking. In a way, an unscheduled night had managed to make it timeless because the pressure of rushing over dinner and trying to squeeze into a set timeline were all absent. The joy was in the unplanned pauses, in the quiet moments when they would look at each other and feel the depth of what had occurred.
Sarah caught a quiet smile on James’s face and asked him what he was thinking. He told her that he was grateful for their time together, for the years they had shared, and for the years to come. He thought that in the grand scheme of things, life was too short to worry about things going wrong. What mattered was the time they had together and how they spent it.
Their anniversary dinner, imperfect but reminding them of the need for presence, was not about the next big celebration; it was about enjoying every single day with the one whom you loved. Time once lost could never be returned, but in those joint moments, they had constructed a lifetime of memories.
