One Life

By Michael MacMillan

Book Overview

I was watching Euronews last night and there was an advertisement for Malaysia always Asia. What attracted my attention was the content and text of the advertisement which showed images of a perfect couple, young, beautiful, in love, wreathed in smiles etc., performing various activities- climbing mountains, chasing exotic butterflies, canoeing along rivers, watching glorious sunsets - in the "thirty million year old rain forests". Well, I reckon thirty million years is as close as you can get to eternity, so if the Malaysian rain forest can do it through constant reseeding of itself why not us, the Macmillan clan, who presumably crawled out of the primeval swamps in some appalling shape or form at about the same time? "One life.". I think that is a good title for anyone looking back on his "one life" and perhaps seeking to transmit a few antecedents to his children. One life because there are so many other people's lives that you have to stay humble; one life because for better or for worse every life is unique; one life because you only have one life (so enjoy it and travel from A to Z as best you can without screwing up too much); one life because maybe, coming back to that elusive notion of eternity, it's meaningful to contemplate the rain forest which has been around so long and, global warming permitting, will still be there when all that's left of me is my offspring...and theirs

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1698716931
• ISBN13: 9781698716930
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 8.5"