The sun sets on another day…
Sunset splattered colorful blotches on the horizon. As I watched the sky I enjoyed the feel of the eve, and the new sensations as ferns threw shadows, and newborn leaves laid out a path to the night.
Every once in a while in life we find ourselves at a crossroads. As we approach, we learn, and in learning we often find ourselves questioning what life is and how to take our next steps. I have often found myself at this very location and it is a familiar face I see now in the distance.
I have quoted frost before and many other authors. How we handle the roads before us is important. I feel though that it is equally important choosing a road at all. I have known many people to become lost in a pathway that they abhor only because of their willingness to not embrace a decision. For those I give an old adage, not making a decision is a decision in itself. I have also known many who stepped back into what is comfortable, a comfortable captor is still a captor, a comfortable torture can be close to death. As with the frog inside of the slowly heating pot, some are not aware of what they are in until suddenly it is beyond their ability to handle.
Still, as you look at the roads before you, the unknowns may be terrifying. As humans, most build their future from what they have known in the past. It is beyond most to extrapolate the potential possibilities if they are beyond the scope of their history. As these people look upon what is coming, it can only be what they have experienced or worse, rarely better. It is my opinion that these thoughts help keep people safe as there is comfort in what they know and they are not disappointed as it becomes a reality of their own making.
Blah blah blah.
I’d like to suggest a different possibility. Each day we can squeeze every moment out of life and define ourselves as the best that we can be. Not with some grandiose plan or a map of our future, but instead with our positivity and a grasp on our realities that allow us to look for the best in a moment. Maybe that’s something we should be looking at, the best in a moment. After all, as we look at that best in a moment it is often filled with people who will support us if we let them, and situations that will help us grow if we take a moment to see. Perhaps I should say that as we seize the moment and make them ours that perhaps we will draw more people forward. As we show people how we live, perhaps they were one to drive forward with us.
It’s worth trying.
So as the sun sets on another day, all we need is today. All we need are good friends who can lift us higher as we lift them higher. All we need is good partners to push through with us and support us no matter what. All we need is to choose our path and live it in a positive manner while discarding the negatives that bring us down. Perhaps all we need is that and a lot more. Maybe even less. It is up to me. It is up to you. Let’s make this life a good one, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and keep moving forward…