Giving in..
To the pressures of life
To the changes in each work world
To the sudden flatness of retirement
To the wild chaos of global stresses
Gratitude tells us:
We are more resilient than that
We are curious about any change
We are determined to create meaning
We are able to centre our own lives.
“Fear wants you to stay scared, Bunny.
But you don’t have to give in.
You don’t have to let it control you.”
~ Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down
Curves wrap through the air
invisible, sneaky
until one day,
without warning
life tosses one
~ or more ~
of those curves.
Just life testing our mettle.
“We’re not given a good life or bad life.
We’re given a life.
It’s up to us to make it good or bad.”
~ Karen Salmansohn, author
Reminiscing about a life
past while my pen scratches
over the beige, lined paper of a little notebook, is like
writing about someone I no longer know. A young girl, then a young woman who has stayed perpetually young
but doing increasingly grownup things. Getting a new job here or there, new friends in all the same places.
Really just a wander through the years as if they really happened.
And maybe they did and my memory is telling me the truth of it.
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
~ Bob Dylan
