As 2010 draws to a close, I want to suggest that you read T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.For I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
Read the full poem here, and listen to a great reading of it by Eliot himself.
And tell me, what does it make you feel?