My CommonPlace

HOWEVER
In the final paragraph of her memoir, An Unfinished Woman, Lillian Hellman says: “But I am not yet old enough to like the past better than the present, although there are nights when I have a passing sadness for the unnecessary pains, the self-made foolishness that was, is, and will be. I do regret that I have spent too much of my life trying to find what I called ‘truth,’ trying to find what I called ’sense.’ I never knew what I meant by truth, never made the sense I hoped for. All I mean is that I left too much of me unfinished because I wasted too much time. However.” This quotation has haunted me since I first read it because I do waste a lot of time worrying and wondering….