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Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives. TV Soap Opera writers made a successful show for years (may still be on the air, not sure) using that expression. Did they coin it or was it just a lucky choice for the title?
I don't watch soap operas anymore on TV, or do I? I watch trials on school violence prevention failures; breaking news events at schools; and the news on kids gone wild in towns and cities across my community and the globe. Drama in disturbed minds and homes played out in public areas.
For the purposes of discussion, school violence is not just about the extremes of school shootings.
Life is a soap opera. Even non televised life gets down right dirty at times. Proctor and Gamble were smart business people early on. Their products still sell.
But real life soap operas do not have a director and no one seems to call, "Cut" in some locations.