Sep 29, 2010
The end of something pushes you to see past it, towards the endless possibilities. What else could I manifest, what else can i experience, succeed at, accomplish and fail all in one beautiful year. Keeping in mind we're not promised tomorrow what steps would i ensure i took into 2010? What couldn't i live with out saying, who would i regret not seeing, who's voice couldn't i go without hearing? All these things rush through our heads in a blazing attempt to grasp the reality of time. Of consist change, that's a funny concept CONSISTENT CHANGE! Wow! Life is a continual flow of ups and downs, we must ride the current and follow the water's lead. Stop being so damn mad at everything and wasting time trying to swim against it. Now, I do not mean sit back and take everything that comes your way and deal with it. Change is possible even while swimming downstream. I believe children are wonderful windows into the stream of life. God they know how to flow. Don't they? Watch one, really pay attention as they play in a new setting, try different things, fall and get up, move from class to class, year to year, new friends, new bodies, new expectations. As children we did not question the flow of the universe, we did not check out every time we graduated or someone moved away. Kids ride the ride. They do express their feelings (hopefully) they do throw a few tantrums, but damn they are champs at the end of the day dealing with change. You would think at 29, 33, 50 years old we'd understand the stream a little more, we'd trust the presence of something bigger at work, and we'd get to know the ability within that allows us to shift the direction with out tipping the boat. You don't always got to fall head first my love, you can control how hard the water moves you can even control other boats around you from directly affecting your speed or destination. You can enjoy the ride and know with out a doubt, you are incredible, filled with purpose and possibility and can literally do anything.
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This reminds me of something I read many years ago in a book by J. Krishnamurti. I never forgot it, and I still try to keep it in mind as I live my life:
ReplyDelete"I don't know if on your walks you have noticed a long, narrow pool beside the river. Some fishermen must have dug it, and it is not connected with the river. The river is flowing steadily, deep and wide, but this pool is heavy with scum because it is not connected with the life of the river, and there are no fish in it. It is a stagnant pool, and the deep river, full of life and vitality, flows swiftly along.
Now, don't you think human beings are like that? They dig a little pool for themselves away from the swift current of life, and in that little pool they stagnate, die; and this stagnation, this decay we call existence. That is, we all want a state of permanency; we want certain desires to last for ever, we want pleasures to have no end. We dig a little hole and barricade ourselves in it with our families, with our ambitions, our cultures, our fears, our gods, our various forms of worship, and there we die, letting life go by - that life which is impermanent, constantly changing, which is so swift, which has such enormous depths, such extraordinary vitality and beauty."
Wow!
ReplyDeleteDon, Great words!