From here to eternity

The moment I’m waiting for, that I’ve been waiting for, for so many years, is to lie back on a beach with absolutely no future in sight. Nothing but the present. For just one moment, to feel as if there’s absolutely nothing that ties me any longer to the world.
Of course, it won’t last. I know it. I’ve read three quarters of Paradise Lost, and I can guess how it ended. Rousseau, the 18th Century political theory, once wrote, “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” Watching From Here To Eternity, there was something I felt that I can’t put into words.