Ambling and Rambling... "But a moment and then we pass away"

Life is brief, man is but a moment on this earth and then he flies away. In candid review, no one is to be condemned of this sin of self-delusion more than the very author himself whom society considers a young, bucking collegiate in the spring of life. To him, the flowers bloom, saturating the ether of his existence with their germ and calling to life undiscovered veins of passion. To him, the doors of opportunity fly and remain open flaunting access to treasures of both vice and virtue. In like manner the windows of the establishement of youth beckon his soul to peer through each pane, through which the light of day courses unimpeded, now crashing off the floor then careening wildly across the bare walls and bouncing off the ceiling, painting the cabin with its vivid, ripe palette. His senses, overwhelmed and held captive by the promise of pleasure, commit him to whichever doorway seems fullest, whether judging by the crowd passing through or the music issuing forth or the satiated exasperations of those beyond. In response, his body gives his mind full approval, trusting that his petulant strength and youthful zeal, in the unlikely event that any injury should be incurred, delivers from both snare and pit. Hark! here proceeds the burning star of man, the envy of the world and the acme of humanity to fullness of life and satisfaction of desire and filling and fulfilling of every thing that can be filled or fulfilled. Hark! here goes he as he has always gone in ages past and in ages to come; neither wise nor discerning, but tenacious and bold; with neither prudence nor experience, nor in need of either. Hark! here he goes, see! always laughing or singing or shouting, now writhing his body in a new syncopated rhythm, now performing a pirouette, ever merry and ever joyful in his drunken dance, neither caring nor worrying but knowing that today calls for pleasure and life, work and sobriety remains for tomorrow and that death stung yesterday but now has agreed to do so no more.