I’m starting to believe we live our lives in chapters. We are growing up in the early chapters. We’re getting educated in others. We are focused on relationships in others. We’re having children and building careers in others. Many of those things can occur at the same time, but at various times in our lives the focus is usually on one or two. Some of the chapters can be quite boring, where we’re just coasting along, living each day as it comes, stuck in our routines, sometimes very happily so, and then a change comes to jostle you a bit or knock you completely off your feet: job changes, broken relationships, health issues, moves from one place to another. They can feel like little deaths in a sense or maybe even actually so.
“All change, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France.
I like change, or so I tell myself. One day I have grape jelly, the next, strawberry. Okay, that’s not really dramatic, and I really don’t have jelly that often anyway, so… What I mean is that we get thrown for a loop sometimes. There’s an earthquake under your feet but not under anybody else’s. Your tectonic plates are shifting but when you look across the street, everything seems to be just as it was. What happened? You may be even screaming in your head. WHAT HAPPENED? No answers come, not yet anyway. Maybe never. I am constantly amazed at how life continues even when I decide to take a break from it, let’s say by having a relaxing weekend indoors(staycation anybody?), a spa day, a week away, or a year…
Everybody’s journey is different. Vive la difference! Some travel fast through life, now is the only option, and others take a much slower pace, tortoise and hare, hare and tortoise. There’s a middle road for a lot of people too. Life ebbs and flows. Your timing is your timing. Everyone has to travel at their own pace. How about you? What’s your speed? What chapter are you on?
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