There is a moment when we pass through that invisible membrane that separates our early years from our latter and present years. I have been very nostalgic on this Sunday afternoon, visiting moments from the past...from my childhood. The times that my mother,father and I were together. The years that they spent raising me. When we all so much younger. How far away from those years and those places I have come. How did I get here? Where did the time go? We were just so busy during those years.. LIVING. That we never took the time to stop..to reflect.. and to realize that we were making history.... that we were maybe seeing the best years of our lives... A time. A place. A moment.. Never to be duplicated.
I have lost so many loved ones along the way. Where they went, I do not know.. They simply went home...each one swept away. With each loss, I now see that I was stepping farther away from who I was... and closer to who I was to BECOME. Who I am now. I am not sure that I am any closer to finding the answers to life. The magic solution to the riddle. As a matter of fact, I am almost certain that you are always a student, never truly figuring it all out but making the best of the hands that we are dealt as we go along.
There is one thing however that I know to be true. I know it from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. To the depths of my soul. It is this... Life is very very short. Treasure your loved ones. Love them. When they fall short, and they WILL.. Forgive!! easily and quickly. For the days that you waste mired in anger, bitterness and sadness, you cannot EVER get back. They are gone ever more. Also.. do not hurry your journey... take your time.. reflect..savor it.. savor each moment.. almost as though it were a fine chocolate.
Life. Is beautiful.. but life like youth.....is Fleeting.
The special moments are all that will last and remain.
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