“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
-Lucille Ball
Yet another loss in my community.
I don't want to say that I have grown cold to these, but they are just a fact of life.
Often, they seem to hit close,but in retrospect,maybe not so much. I have had many losses over the years. I have had a bunch this year. Although I have dear memories of times spent with many of those who have departed,my day to day, even year to year contact with them was minimal.
In reality,what I have loss is a person who at some point in my life was I was connected to.
In my real life,in my now life,they are memories or stories from another time and place.
I have to ask myself,where is the loss?
The stories remain.
The memories remain.
And life goes on.
When I hear of someone passing,it reminds me of what once was or what I once had.
No one knows more than me, that the stories matter.Where we came from and how we got here are important.
Dwelling on the past is not.
The popular sentiment is to Live for Today!
All well and good I suppose.
But is it really?
Without a vision for tomorrow, I just don't see what today has to offer.
An endless string of one and dones?
Not for me.It's a conundrum.
Seize the day!
Nice idea.
In order to seize today, in order to move towards tomorrow,it's obvious that I can't get mired in the past, no matter how romantic those memories may be.
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