OUR TOWN

I will bet that most of you reading this are familiar with Thornton Wilder's play, OUR TOWN.  I love this play, because the message is so powerful.  (I equate it to the message relayed in one of my favorite movies- MEET JOE BLACK.)  In this play, the dead Emily comes back to her old life, unseen to the living, to revisit an "unimportant" day in her life.  She watches her younger self and her family going about their business, unaware that it's a perfect day and will not last.  The fact that they don't know what they have while they have it, overwhelms her with sadness and as she turns to return to her grave, she says through her tears:
"Good- by, Good-by world.  Good-by, Grover's Corners.  Mama and Papa.  Good-by to clocks ticking......and Mama's sunflowers.  And food and coffee.  And new-ironed dresses and hot baths.....and sleeping and waking up.  Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.  DO ANY HUMAN BEINGS EVER REALIZE LIFE WHILE THEY LIVE IT?"