Change

Sam Cooke sang it best when he sang, “Change is gonna come”.

Confronted with many things occuring in my own life recently, I began to think about change. But most of all I began to think of its main characteristic of inevitability.

If change is so synonomous with inevitability, why do we as humans often react to it with feelings of sadness or anger or fear?

I agree that these emotions are part of our intertwined nature as human beings.

However, how much more would we enjoy our lives if we embraced change? Whether if it is good or bad, it always seems better or worse at that very moment. So what if we take it in with a deep breath and exhale?

Recognize the inevitablity. Put blame, guilt, sadness, shame aside. Hold on to the joy that you find and find joy in the pain. After all, you do not have to hold on to the pain to hold on to the memories.

Say

Say to me you love me,
let your eyes say you already miss me.

Say to me you’ll be there,
with a sincere hope, truthful, misty.

Say you’ll lift me way up high,
when life brings me ever so low.

Say for me you will always stay,
even if I beg you to go.

Say the things I’ve heard a million and one times before.
But say it love, and mean it, and I am yours forevermore.

Growing in the unknown

There’s a feeling.
A question.
A desire.
An apprehension.
A wonder of if or why.

There’s a hope.
A dream.
A yearn.
A projectment.
A possible smile or sigh.

There’s an unknown.
A known.
A being.
A soul.
A body one holds in its own.

There’s a chance.
A whim.
A right.
A wrong.
Uncertainty til we’re grown.

“We create our fate every day that we live”

Life has dealt me many cards: good,bad, miraculous, tragic, peculiar. I am 25 and I have traveled the far reaches of the world, learned other languages, been hurt, been in a national pageant, gained knowlege, been cheated, gained true friends, obtained 2 degrees, lost love, experienced death, but most importantly I have lived. Each aspect of life, each day, each hour, each minute, every moment is a potential morcel of knowledge, a potential blessing of experience, a potential grain of fate. It is what you do with these infinate occurences and what you take from them that forms who you are.

Every Wednesday I will provide you with insight into life through poetry, research, and/or through meaning of scholars’ and individuals’ quotes from thousands of years ago to recent times. Just a chance for you to think, to ponder, but to most of all realize a new layer, either already existing or new, of your inner self.

I love to hear from all of you so please keep those comments coming!

Stay Tuned and A bientot.