Once More To The Lake Theme

Whether it is counting the number of birthdays you have in your lifetime or the number of times you have traveled to a certain place, every experience is unique from the previous. It is shown clearly in “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White, where he asserts that “There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one - the one that was part of memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod I was at the end of.” The essence of time and how it changes a person physically and in the soul, shows the remarkable nature of humans. It is human nature that we humans become our parents over time and that we start out immature and move towards maturity.
Time is a major concept in life. We are taught to preserve time and not waste any of it. But sometimes it feels like time is running away and that we are not getting a grasp of it. For me as a student, when I get busy into my studies or when I play video games for leisure I sometimes don’t note the time and get
Humans usually look at their parents and ancestors to take a broader message of life. They want to achieve and learn the most in life and therefore look up at their role models to do so. But the main theme to take from E.B. White’s essay’s, more specifically “Once More to the Lake” is that take hold of time and use it to the fullest. The time gone is the time lost. But as human nature, we change from being a baby to our youth and our elderly. This change happens so quickly it is hard to see the change. But what we benefit from the time and what we teach our offspring will bring the most effect on our lineage. This is the main point E.B. White brings in “Once More to the Lake” which proves that time elapses and we don’t see it until we see our kids grow up to be the new