With life moving at lightning speed these days, it is hard
to really enjoy a moment or a memory. It’s captured so quickly in a picture, a
message, a video, or some other medium. In days past a moment or a memory was
private, held only in your heart or in your mind and you could only reflect on
it privately, on your own terms. Nowadays there are millions of acres of a
virtual life where moments and memories can be suspended in time and held out
there forever. I feel like this is a good thing. You can see something and
remember that moment, who you were at that time, who you became, or who(m) you
left behind or who(m) left you behind. The tragedy of the past is that that it
is gone as quickly as it is made. We move forward. We keep those special
memories close to heart. It is truly amazing how they can sit on your subconscious
heart and mind and can be randomly accessed at the speed of light just from
seeing something familiar, hearing a song, or being in a place the memory was
created and still lasts forever. It’s important to always see the good…even if
it is a memory of a difficult time or experience. Life itself can’t simply
always be easy and positive moments. Life does require some tenacity, strife,
and perseverance….it makes life worth living..and it makes the good moments…that
much more valuable. Life is like the ocean…it can be so powerful and destructive,
but the ocean and it’s power also provide a livelihood, a way to survive, a way
to live, and a way to enjoy life amongst the calm sea and wavering tide. Like life,
some times the tide will be so high you can hardly tread water, but the tide
recedes, you start to paddle again, and soon you can walk back on land and know
that you have made it….and you remember what you made it through.
“When anxious, uneasy
and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its
great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon
everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” Rainer Maria Rilke
