Sometimes I will find myself staring at the blinking Sanskrit of an airport arrivals and departures schedule to the point of no longer remembering where I'm going, or why I'm bothering.
"I don't usually do this for former Malone players, " said Ballymena man Syd, no doubt remembering the time I took a swing at him during an Ulster League match back in the Seventies.
You have no interest in remembering her exactly as she was, were you to lose her, or in seeing her again when it will no longer be possible to see her.