Tempus Fugit, If One Does Not Carpe Diem.

Tempus Fugit, If One Does Not Carpe Diem.

Time Flies, If One Does Not Seize The Day.

A Motto for Life – Ecclesiastes-Kohelet

  (In memory of my maternal grandfather, Dr.Jakub Herzig, my father, Sigmond Shore and my mother, Dr.(Therese) Lena Allen-Shore)

As one sums up one’s whole life in review,

Especially on retirement or late age,

One then does see the truth of Kohelet;

The commandments comprise our whole duty:

To be responsible for all in our midst:

It is “Tempus Fugit”, if one does not “Carpe Diem”.

As my grandfather pointed to a park clock,

He saw the first words, the second came later.

My father’s entire Bar Mitzvah speech to me

encapsulated it all: be responsible,

that is your only obligation in life.

Do not seek honour; that comes from others.

Mazal, good fortune, solely comes from G-d.

My mother taught there are no strangers on earth;

Everyone belongs to a corner of the world.

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That is the sum of it all. As it is the spirit of

responsibility for justice and compassion

which is forever, otherwise, all is but fleeting.