Do you ever stop and think that you are not living the kind of life you really want to be living?
Do you ever picture the life you really want to be living and realize that it's a life of nothing?
Not nothing, exactly, but nothing that society would value. A life of traveling the world, every day a new experience a new chance at encounter a time to see something you've never ever seen before and may never ever see again?
Perhaps life is not just an accumulation of as many different experiences as possible. Perhaps life is about setting down roots. Perhaps life is about staying in your hometown your entire life. Perhaps life is about finding a place a people you love and never leaving.
Perhaps life isn't about just the same thing for everyone. Perhaps everyone has to decide what their lives are about, what is going to make them feel like they are truly living their lives, and we'll all come out differently on that decision.
This semester, my life has been shifting. It is as if I have been clearing away all the sediment that has built up these past 10 years over the glowing core of who I am and I am just now getting in touch with who I want to be. The shifting is not yet over--things have not yet settled. But it is nearing the time to live.
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