Same As It Ever Was (or ch-ch-changes)
How do you travel through your life?
Who are you now? Yesterday? Decades ago?
What resonates for you as you travel onwards with your life?
Walking down the streets of my past during the past 4 months has opened my heart and soul. I cherish life. I do not question it too much.
Just have to live it with the best intentions and blessings and gratitude.
Was I the same person when I was smoking a joint in the bleachers in High School as I was when I was present at the birth of my first child? How about the same person I am today versus Monday?
Analytically it is an intriguing bit of investigation to review what steps you have taken and maybe assess who you are or what you have become through the passage of time and events.
But of course, there is no need to look backward.
We are everchanging and that is a fact.
With each breath, we change.
I have always liked the idea of Being Here Now and trying to live with that philosophy. Shit, that has not always been easy, has it?
I have concluded that we should keep moving toward the light. Not the light at the end of the tunnel, because that could be a train…. but the light of life and positive energy and love.
We will all write and create our own stories. Maybe the building blocks of the past will be your foundation or maybe you will evolve with change as your guide. Or some combination from column 1 and column 2.
There is no one way forward. But there is only that one direction.
You cannot go back.
People will change you and influence you. Love will do that too.
My choice is simple, and it is mine.
What about you?
Have a read of the article by Joshua Rothman in the New Yorker. The link is below.
Who are you?