a moment

if a positive life can be built simply of the memory of a moment of ecstasy in childhood, like the hush of waves lapping from behind a windowshade illuminated by the afternoon sun, the so can a negative life be built around a moment of failure, betrayal, rejection, impotence. a memory of bitterness, jilted in life, like Ms Havisham, a moment one cannot ever surmount, your life revolving around it like a galaxy around a black hole.