Four by four

 

Once upon a time, I think it was four years ago, things were great. But then four years before that they were awful. Then again, four years before that they were great. Well, that’s not really true. For some folks, four years ago was awful, four years before that was great, and four years before that was pretty awful. Actually, that’s not exactly true either. Since four years ago it was good and bad. Just like four years before that, four years before that, four years before that, and so on and so forth. 

 

But no time is wholly one thing or the other. During those years it was good, bad, great, awful and lots of other adjectives only my thesaurus knows.

 

So four years from now might be awful or great like today or both or neither. 

 

But we’ll still be here. Same with four years after that and four years after that. And on and on and on.