We live life and make plans as if this is our home and we are going to be here forever. Occasionally, we wake up to a rude reminder that this is not the case and life is indeed brief.
I have never been to America but it is a dream of mine to one day go and to go to a proper diner and have pancakes with that streaky bacon and syrup from one of those jugs and coffee that a waitress will refill from one of those coffee pots