The veto power of time

It is one thing to live life, knowing that everyday is important.
It is quite another thing altogether, to live with the knowledge that the immediate future, and indeed the present especially, hold a latent potential and a particularly strong influence on one's life. Or at least on things of immediate concern.

Already, I am aware that all the signs point to an ominous degeneration of my circumstances.
This is, if you like, the decline of a dynasty.
But also the birth crucible of another.

Surely surely, the first semester of year 2008 mark a point of change.
A point where dy/dx = 0.
And so,
for this few weeks of the slightest reprieve,
I am pouring all hope, will and effort into pulling the brakes, and overcoming the inertia.

If anything, I have a vested interest to see that this
turns out to be a minimum point.