A Future Transformation

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"The future enters into us, in order to transform us, long before it happens.".... Rainer Maria Rilke

This is so very true. For the past few years I've lived this quote with a complete awareness of all unfolding events. I clearly saw an emerging pattern as I traveled one measured footstep to the next. I've stumbled more times than I like to admit, but I never really stopped moving forward. I may not have always known what was ahead, but I always understood what lay behind.

A person can only play hot potato with their life for so long then one of two things just naturally occurs. You either take a firm grip on the lifeline and tug with all your might or release hold forevermore. These seem to be our only possible options. We all reach that place sometime during our lifetime, whether we admit being there afterward is the only uncertainty.

Confessing it to yourself would be a bitter enough task if letting go was the choice made, declaring it to anyone else seems even more brutal. I know few brave enough to publicly avow a willingness to simply exist in a world that offers so many possibilities.

The ones who opt to really live have no reason to conceal their choice. The attempt would be quite useless anyway, since it radiates from every atom. In a real way it's a sacred human metamorphosis. That condition is defined as a striking change in appearance... or character... or circumstances. Humans receive all three, the degree of which is produced in equal measure to however much awareness we experience.

Validation gives everything a depth that you cannot achieve in any other fashion. Staying wide-eyed isn't a cake walk. Seeing things so vividly is empowering, but it's also frightening beyond belief. It feels a bit like watching magic and knowing that by intense concentration you're somehow connected to its outcome. It's around you and of you in such a wondrous way; others feel it too when they allow themselves the pleasure.

People plug into each other and it isn't hard to tell the difference between a negative and a positive based outlet. A fountain or a drain is the same principle. We're all one or the other and it's at that crossroads that we e   ach choose which will be our legacy. I guess it takes less energy to flip off a light than it does to turn it on... but living a life without any illumination is a very steep rice to pay for taking the path of least resistance. Think about it.... let it ride.... then You decide!!!!