We think things will last . . .

"We have a tendency to believe 

good things will last forever. 

It is in our nature. 

The Beatles, for example.  

Oh, they'll be around forever.

The Sopranos--

that show will always be on the air.  

Philip Roth's Zuckerman series. 

Springsteen concerts. 

Good things are rare.

They are to be cherished 

because they always leave us 

too soon.

* * * 

[It is] our tendency 

to think good things 

will last forever.  

They don't. 

We think that 

we will always be young, 

that the 

moments 

and 

people 

we cherish 

are everlasting.  

But they're not."

Harlan Coben, Live Wire, 15, 354.