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It seems we all are looking for something - Some goal to accomplish, some dream to achieve. We're so busy planning for our future that we forget that we are living right here, right now. We stare through a window, just waiting for a sign that we're ready to begin, and we often overlook what time we've already wasted. What does it mean to start?
We sail the ebb and flow of time and relationships, trying to forge something definitive and infinite. We attempt to climb our way to the top - to be knocked down, only to rise again. What are we trying to reach?
The journeys in life are the most important, not their destinations. We cannot observe life and expect it to be lived. We should not live for the future while we exist only in the present. We are always progressing forward, crossing milestones and hurdling set backs. Still, we are now...and yet we must move on... What is our motivation?
I've lived many lifetimes in so few years on this earth and I have so many more lifetimes yet to live. I can see and understand and learn from the naivety of my younger self. I now know why the goals matter but also why they aren't everything. I refuse to wait around for end results anymore. And it's not because I don't respect and appreciate them. But by obsessing over silent ambitions, seeking them out with such fixation, we will miss out on all that is happening around us and the relationships we could be forming.
Nothing is forever except our legacy... We must appreciate what we have while it's here to be held. As it has been said, "Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life." The one thing that transcends all space and time is the odyssey of love. And that love is our legacy.
We sail the ebb and flow of time and relationships, trying to forge something definitive and infinite. We attempt to climb our way to the top - to be knocked down, only to rise again. What are we trying to reach?
The journeys in life are the most important, not their destinations. We cannot observe life and expect it to be lived. We should not live for the future while we exist only in the present. We are always progressing forward, crossing milestones and hurdling set backs. Still, we are now...and yet we must move on... What is our motivation?
I've lived many lifetimes in so few years on this earth and I have so many more lifetimes yet to live. I can see and understand and learn from the naivety of my younger self. I now know why the goals matter but also why they aren't everything. I refuse to wait around for end results anymore. And it's not because I don't respect and appreciate them. But by obsessing over silent ambitions, seeking them out with such fixation, we will miss out on all that is happening around us and the relationships we could be forming.
Nothing is forever except our legacy... We must appreciate what we have while it's here to be held. As it has been said, "Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life." The one thing that transcends all space and time is the odyssey of love. And that love is our legacy.
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Re: Some musings: On what we leave behind
Thu, July 16, 2009 - 1:54 PMHear, hear!!