neat phrases oozing with profundity

It has always bothered me how at the end of super dramatic shows, everything is summed up so nicely. There's a song, and a sound over which allows the viewer to know how the characters all feel, how they are all connected to each other. This bothers me because this doesn't happen in real life, there isn't a concise ending where everything is summed up neatly with a beautifully sad song. I wish it were true. I wish I had a soundtrack to follow me around and a voice over at the end of the day summing up my life and the lives of my favorite friends and family.
So, at the end of my day, I put on the soundtrack that most fits how I'm feeling, and I write down the neat little phrases which ooze with subtle profundity.

Almost every week I want to write that I've been greeted by my past. Sometimes it's in my thoughts, where something on the side of the street or a smell will remind me of something that happened to me. A couple of months ago I was walking to campus and the way the light struck through the unexpected fog and the smell of rain just recently fallen took me into an immediate flashback of driving over the bridge at 6:30 in the morning on my way to another day of tourist herding.
I'll get an email from one of my friends back home, every once in a while, that usually starts with, 'I'm so sorry we never talk, I regret losing touch with you every day'. And just seeing the name of that person takes me back to a memory of a good time with them. And then I regret losing touch with them too.
And then sometimes it's a phone call, and usually more than one on the same day. And you reminisce about middle school and make plans to see each other soon. And you reminisce about two summers ago, because that was a good summer where you grew a lot.
The past is always going to be with us, and it's amazing that we get to reminisce and remind people of the things that we did, and we get to be reminded of the things that we don't remember. So I'm not being greeted by the past every once in a while because it is constantly with me. I am just being reminded that it's there and I was happier once.

and I will be happier again.
and life is short.
but the bad times are shorter.
and when I'm old, if I can say that I've smiled and laughed more than I've cried, then I will feel like my life was more than fulfilling. And then I'll start to tell stories of those times that I was laughing and smiling.
and that will make me laugh and smile.