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November 10, 2009 |
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They say the more things change, the more they stay the same, and I'm inclined to agree. The more the world swirls around us, the harder we try to stabilize, to keep the familiar and comfortable in our lives. It's the natural process of balance.
So much of our life's expressions have to do with balance. It's ironic, though, how many things we try to hold onto that can't be held. Like our youth. I see these little old ladies with their jet black hair and red lipstick and makeup that they obviously wore decades ago. We fight getting older, we have plastic surgery and go to the gym to work out and buy clothes that were a style we wore in our teens and twenties. Do we think if we do these things we will somehow stop the aging process from happening? And yet, time marches on. We're born, we age, we die, that's the way it works (at least in this life). Fighting the changes that happen doesn't keep them from happening. It keeps us from embracing them and enjoying them in their fullness. We pine for what we had to leave behind on our journey, and spend so much time mourning the past that we fail to enjoy the present and sometimes refuse to anticipate the future.
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