Feeling deceived by the time, he smiled and told his grandson that, "I should have known this all my life that no matter what I was doing, I was at no point of time outrunning the time itself. While I was snatching a second away from it, in the same span it was seizing a second away from everyone I cared about. Now lying here in my bed, waiting for it to take its final toll on me, which I must say it definitely did on a number of occasions by taking away my aforementioned beloved ones, it deceives me yet again with its inexorable prowess of playing ping-pong by taking me back to the times I cherished the most, and throwing me back here the moment I start reviving them".
So make sure you live the most of the time.
How naive I was, he coughed and added, all my life, judging people merely by what they showed me. Never really fully able to understand them and life - well I am not alone there, very seldom do people understand life unless they are in the position I am. And one cannot be blamed for not getting to know every person who comes along their way.
Still, care for others' feelings.
It took me a while to realize this, but you keep this in your mind; take it in written if you want assurance or record my words if you want to, but the biggest lesson that I have learnt is that - "Only your family cares about you". No matter how good others seem to behave, how hard they try to cajole you into believing that they care - well son, they don't. No matter how much you think you care about that friend of yours and would always be there for him, you are mistaken. Family is the only constant. All you had, you have and you'll have. All that was, is, and will be there for you. Everything and everyone else is just ephemeral. Some would stay a little too longer than the others. But won't be any different.
So care for your family...
I am not sermonizing you child nor am I going to tell you the right way to lead your life for there exists no right or wrong way. I am not trying to inculcate cynicism in you.
For where there is life - there are only stories; fascinating, myriad, faded with time, and the ones with lessons. Each worth listening to, and each worth telling. I have had mine and I have shared a few lessons....