Sometimes the things that scare us the most yield the best rewards.
I am learning that improvement is a constant thing in our lives, the opportunity to better ourselves is one that should--under no circumstance--be disregarded. We live for a reason. I've always believed that we live inversely, that rather than going from young to old we should go from old to young. This was something I greatly contemplated and concluded to be a definite in my life. I was wrong.
We live from young to old for a reason. In youth, we are well-equipped with the carefree mentality, the incredible focus on simplicity, the utter love for life that is rarely found in our older years. As we grow, we are faced with challenges, responsibilities, realities, all chipping away at the life-view of our youth and forming a more ill-advised perception of this world.
The challenge of living is to hold true to the youthful life we are meant to live while facing the erosion of time, progress, growth.
We are given an incredible opportunity. We are given this time period of a life, and the world to go with it. We're given the wonders and mysteries that we take for granted. We are given this temporary home, a chance to gain some experience and perspective on what really matters. We are blessed.
We so easily lose sight of who we are, and what our purpose is. We are put here to live. Sometimes we lose sight of not only our purpose, but what we are given as well. In each day, we are given miracles.
For each one of us, the world turns. The sun rises and sets. The flowers bloom and the snow falls. For us, this happens. The wind blows, the birds chirp, the clouds sway, the grass grows. For us. The stars in the sky exist so that we can wish, the moon that accompanies them so we can dream. The renewal of spring exists for us, so we can find hope. The cold of winter centers us, allows us to see that life is balanced. There is bad in our life, so that we can truly appreciate the good. There is pain and suffering to demand that we look forward and see better days. Nothing happens without reason, it is a part of this incredible experience we are given.
I am learning every day the beauty and opportunity this experience of ours can hold. I love that I will never know everything in its entirety, that throughout each day of my life---I will have to live.
