“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

Heraclitus

I have just finished reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig. The last time I read it was 40 years ago and at that time the book changed my life. I thought it a masterpiece and was full of new ideas and thoughts that really made me think deeply about the meaning of life. Very happily, I found the book to be just as insightful in my latest reading. I remembered some parts of the book very clearly and other parts seemed brand new to me, like I was reading them for the first time.

In writing a letter to your grandchildren, remind them that they should read it more than once. They will learn new things from the same letter. When they read your life stories and your best words of wisdom at 50 they will have a substantially different view  of what you wrote than when they first read it at 15.