The sun sets on another day…
I was rushing to go to sunset when suddenly the lights went out. Quickly grabbing my phone, I looked at the radar and yet another storm encroached on the world. This one came up quick and extinguished the sunset even though high above the beauty was still there.
I have a granddaughter. It’s interesting watching her interact with the world because right now she is more like a simple difference engine than an analytical machine. My daughter, being who she is, tries to find ways to comfort her and as she does it is usually through singing. A lot of it is singing dumb songs that I sang to her years ago.
While they visited this time I giggled and laughed and enjoyed the moment as my granddaughter learned and interacted even more. It is amazing to consider how fast we all grow up and how much we still have to grow. For her the music is a key and for her each day is an adventure. For me I continue to grow up each day as I realize I never know as much as I thought and I never think about how much I know, just how much i can learn.
There is a comic that is quite old that is lost in a loop. An evil person challenges a God and in doing so we see that there was a certain amount of humor in the solution. As they battled it was easy to see who was going to win except for the villain. The villain was eventually easily defeated but as part of the defeat they were sent back thousands of years in the past to the point that they started attaining power. Stuck forever in trying to learn that they were not omnipotent. It is a cruel idea but the only way out of the trap would be humility and the nature of the being contained none of that.
As I state this I challenge each of you to be humble. Realize that the biggest thing that we all could know is that we do not know. Believe in the facts that you can knowing that to Morrow it may all be an illusion. If the last four years have taught us anything it is that allusions abound and the only truth that we can count on is real friendship and real love. Everything else is up for grabs.
So as the sun sets on another day, I hope you find a way to learn more every day, I hope you know how important you are, but mostly I hope you can remain open to possibilities and never discount another person for their belief in something else. Find your truth and move on with it, and as long as it hurts no one use it to guide you until you find what is real, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and who is that masked man…