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I just noticed the shiny coin amongst the bunch on my desk, it stirred a childlike nostalgia within me. As a child I used to enjoy checking the mint date on shiny coins, always excited I was on discovering this years coin, and whether or not it had a limited design of a moment in history or rare animal from a far flung place.
This time I checked, my mind preempted the inevitable fact that I was not going to relive the same kind of excitement and wonderment, a fact that was realised more so when the shiny coin was dated 2005 - not this years coin. While I was somewhat pleased to find a limited design of an unnamed bridge, my eyes turned in contemplation to the floor or some unfocussable blind spot, the minutest squint as I realised this loss of wonder, that bygone age.
But I do still have wonderment, I have compassion, I have humanity, I see things everyday that others miss, I think outside myself, I reflect.
I, I am not dead yet.