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Distance lends enchantment to life
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Gary Hayden
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SINGAPORE - It is an odd quirk of human nature that while we are continually longing for some future state of affairs, we nonetheless look back wistfully on what is past.
We feel that our future happiness depends upon things we have yet to acquire or to accomplish, and yet we look back fondly upon a time when we had acquired and accomplished none of those things.
