Another New Year’s Eve comes ... and goes before you blink! My, but the years quickly disappear and with them, it often seems, everything we’ve done during the past year vanishes from reality like the faces of cascading dominoes as they tumble to the floor. You pine for their passing for sure but have little to show apart maybe from a deep sense of nostalgic regret at their loss and, of course, their shaky memory.
But as I approach another milestone in this here life, and veer towards another roundy oxbow along this here river's run, I’m getting a bit tired of all this regret for the passing of things gone by as though they are stranded vignettes of joy or sadness or otherwise. As such, I think the time has come to look at things from a different perspective. To see it all in a new light.
A quote that recently stuck in my mind came from a certain New Jersey bard who opined that “it’s not the time in your life, it’s the life in your time” that really counts! No better man than Bruce to nail the thing that many of us have forgotten - on account of our obsession with living by numbers and counting out time. One pert observation by the maestro and it’s finally dawned on me that life's value, essence and meaning is about its quality, purpose, and the experiences gained while living it and has little of value to equate it solely to the fact we're all gettin' on a bit.
So, I've decided to follow the Boss’s advice and to stop counting - calories, steps, blessings and time itself - to forget about the quantity and focus on the essence.
And the more I think about falling dominos, the better I see the sense of what this really all means. Rather than looking at each individual domino crashing to its own end, why not think about the energy it has created in doing so in order to keep the momentum going - the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. While one hits the deck the one after enjoys the thrill of its own free fall and when that’s done it then enables the next one to do the same ... and again and again, moving the show forwards right up to the moment when the last domino falls and the movement stops and the show is done!
And, then, when you zoom out and look at the whole result laid out before you, you see that a grand design has been created while a journey has been completed! And the whole thing in its essence has become a truly unique performance. It's own work of art! 😊
Just a point but not the one I wanted to make - which is to wish you all the very best for the year to come and to wager well that the road will rise to meet you one and all me hearties! ❤️
More soon ...
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Happy New Resolution! |
