{"id":10606,"date":"2013-07-13T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2013-07-13T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T14:00:14","slug":"the-passage-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10606","title":{"rendered":"The Passage of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago today, my cousin Ben<\/a> died while climbing in Peru.<\/p>\n

I didn’t learn he was missing until two weeks later, and then there were three long miserable days until his body was discovered.<\/p>\n

It took another week and a half after his body was recovered to return him to the US and bury him.<\/p>\n

After all this time, I’m still mad at him, and probably always will be to some small degree. But the anger isn’t the greatest part of what I feel. <\/p>\n

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\n 
\nIf you love somebody,
\nBetter tell them while they’re here, ’cause
\nThey just may run away from you
\nYou’ll never know what went well
\nThen again it just depends on
\nHow long a time is left for you
\nI’ve had the highest mountains
\nI’ve had the deepest rivers
\nYou can have it all but life keeps moving
\nNow take it in but don’t look down<\/p>\n

‘Cause I’m top of the world, ‘ay
\nI’m on top of the world, ‘ay
\n‘Waiting for this for a while now,
\nPaying my dues to the dirt
\nI’ve been waiting to smile, ‘ay
\nBeen holding it in for awhile, ‘ay
\nTake it with me if I can,
\nBeen dreaming of this since a child
\nI’m on top of the world<\/p>\n

I’ve tried to cut these corners
\nTry to take the easy way out
\nI kept on fallin’ short of something
\nI coulda’ gave up then, but
\nThen again I couldn’t have, ’cause
\nI’ve traveled all this way for something
\nNow take it in but don’t look down<\/p>\n

‘Cause I’m top of the world, ‘ay
\nI’m on top of the world, ‘ay
\n‘Waiting for this for a while now,
\nPaying my dues to the dirt
\nI’ve been waiting to smile, ‘ay
\nBeen holding it in for awhile, ‘ay
\nTake it with me if I can,
\nBeen dreaming of this since a child<\/p>\n

And I know it’s hard when you’re falling down
\nAnd it’s a long way up when you hit the ground
\nGet up now, get up, get up now
\nAnd I know it’s hard when you’re falling down
\nAnd it’s a long way up when you hit the ground
\nGet up now, get up, get up now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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