Because This Time Is All You Have

I want to tell you something, something you do not yet know, but we K-Paxians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, and it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
--Prot (from "K-PAX ")

Grand Scenic Divide from above Bass Canyon (top)
from Boucher Trail (middle)
blooming monkeyflowers near Ribbon Falls (below)