Tick tock

I had a nice day today with Ferguson then later with Alex, Marley, Evie & Gracie, yet there was one thing sticking in my head.
My Dad.
It's been 17 years now & although his passing feels like an age ago, I recall it so distinctly like it was yesterday.
This is a Russian pocket watch that he bought perhaps 20 years ago in Poland & I coveted it so much when he showed it to me upon his return.
It's strange that I find myself looking at it now, today of all days!
I'm didn't mopse about or make a big deal of it in fact, life goes on, it has to. I suppose it made me think about taking more risks in life, jumping for what I like or want & not to perhaps get hung up over things because you just never know what might happen.
Carpe Diem, for want of an incredibly overused term...