Walking, snow falling, it is possible <br />to focus at various distances <br />in turn on separate flakes, sharply engage <br />the attention at several spatial points: <br />the nearer cold and more uncomfortable, <br />the farther distanced and almost pleasing. <br /> <br />Living, time passing, it is preferable <br />to focus the memory in turn upon <br />the more distant retrospects in order <br />that the present mind may retain its peace. <br /> <br />Yet knowing that seeing and remembering <br />are both of course personal illusions.<br /><br />Ben Jonson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/living-by-2/
