"the drift can be corrected"
Monday, February 29, 2016 at 2:15PM A leap year, by a very loose definition, is mankind's way of balancing out imperfections in the space time continuum. The Wikipedia article I read today, on this day that exists and yet doesn't exist, uses a term I quite like: "the drift can be corrected".
I've always just thought of February 29th in broader terms. In middle school, I was so proud of posting on my Xanga the day of, if only so I could claim I had. I thought it was funny to learn a good family friend had proposed to his wife on 2/29 because, as he later told my father, it was a date he would always remember.
This morning started the same for me. To be quite honest, I completely forgot about it until I turned on the news. That's when I checked Wikipedia, because it's my day off and surfing Wikipedia on your day off is second nature to anyone who grew up in the age of the Internet. And there it was, in black and white. Wikipedia comes through again.
"the drift can be corrected"
Things are a-changing. Decisions are being made. And four years from now, I'm not going to be where I am now, just as where I am now is different from where I was four years ago. This drift is being corrected, and I couldn't be happier.