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During a long hill climb on my run tonight, a passing car came up from behind me and snapped me out of my runner’s reverie. I looked up from my shoes to see no parking signs marking off the distance to the summit of the hill, above which the sun illuminated the sky a blush pink. Suddenly, I saw through it all, saw through it all so clearly that any attempt to explain comes off trite. And yet I’ll try anyway: I realized that my life, no matter what happens, is a gift, that good and bad events are all woven together into something I do not yet understand … all of this and so much more, an eternity in an instant. The event is hard to describe, transient as it was. I think it was what paradise feels like. I don’t believe, bound as we are to the limitations and worries of the world, we are able to experience that kind of perfection for very long.

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