Four and Twenty - Before today gets away, I thought I’d take a few minutes to imagine what will be important to me, twenty years from now. The way I see things probably won’t matter half as much as my ability to see them. My warm memories will be no substitute for the warmth of whatever family and friends are still nearby. All the words I’ve ever written won’t matter anymore than being smitten with some cute young waitress who flirts with me over breakfast. I think my life is finally getting simpler and the things that matter are getting clearer day by day. Twenty years from now, my own opinions might amuse me, but I hope I’m wise enough to see them for what they really are: reflections of whatever I bring to wherever I am. They are only worthwhile when they help us experience what’s directly in front of us, without getting in the way of our deeper selves. I, for one, am thrilled by our impermanence. It’s what allows us to embrace our imperfections as expressions of a being destined and perhaps even designed, to strive. What good would it do a man to be alive if all that he was living for had already died? If we have nothing to aspire to and nothing to achieve then it stands to reason only fools would choose to believe. I choose to believe in a higher self, that wealth is found in wisdom and peace is good for our health. So later in life when I roll my own and fire one up every evening, please don’t think I’m getting wasted, that would be deceiving. I’ll be getting in touch with ritual, ancient, tried and true. I’ll no longer need to make sense of life as younger people do. A smile, a song, a tender embrace, a quiet walk, no need to race; the wind, the wave, a lover’s kiss, stolen moments, such is bliss. The sky, the rain, a moonlit night, holding someone close and tight; the sand beneath an old man’s toes, still shifts in spite of all he knows. A laugh, a cry in harmony, at one with all that we can be, a taste of home, a symphony, may time and tide set us free.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:06:05 +0000
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