If I’ve learned anything in my life, it is that life is always changing. People, places and things come and go. Life takes us through detours and stand still. And it is happy and sad. But thankful, we are still standing and breathing.
Life is meant to be lived.
It might feel like an end to the world, but there is no end, not really – only new places, new locations. New things to see and experience. You just have to open your eyes to a new beginning.
Sometimes it is hard and we wonder how we got here. Which doors we took, which ones we were meant or never meant to open, but it isn’t in the doubting, or in the questioning. It is instead in the full realization of where we are right now. Where we stand, with the wind in our face, with the sun shining, with the darkness always at the horizon, waiting. Where we can take up our pen – and begin to write our own story. And we should…
Perhaps it is a comedy, maybe a tragedy. As we step into the pages of our life, what will they be? Maybe we were idiots (probably), maybe we were betrayed, or got lost, or became full of pride or our own importance. Maybe we were masters for a time, fell in love, into happiness, into grief and sadness, made errors of judgment we now pay for. Maybe there are hard lessons we can now accept we must learn, or perhaps there is even a time of harvest, just waiting to be reaped and enjoyed after so many years of waiting.
This is life, and life awaits our presence, not safety. Not our hesitation. Not our fear. Not our sadness.
Smile. Embrace. Give. Do not live in fear. Laugh. Even in the darkness. Even in the question. Even through the tears. Live.
We are here a short time, and maybe it is a tragedy. Maybe it is an opera, or just a comedy, or the story that is full of mystery. But do not let it be nothing. All these things mark our place in time and in experience. Live it, don’t be afraid, and live it boldly, even the mistakes; even the cold and the lost places. Embrace those and grow and learn.
The great book of our life, must be our life. The great story of being, our own. Read it. Breathe it. WRITE it. Turn off the fear and turn on love to those around you. Let every page be a show stopper.
Now, pick up that life pen and start creating your story!