Life: A string of experiences

You can often find me in a daze of melancholy. Less and less though as I am learning to let go. Letting go removes the sadness from longing after memories and times past. Letting go, removes the layer of sadness exposing the purity, the joy, the beauty of the recollection. Melancholy transforms to gratitude for what I got to experience, what I got to live. 

There is one constant in this life, in this world, and that is that all will change. 

Accepting this universal truth was not easy. Still a work in progress for me and probably, always will be. I am only human after all. While “bad” moments cannot bid me farewell and move on fast enough, my heart wrestles as I have to accept the “good” moments must also come to an end. Where does that leave us, where does it leave me?

It leaves me replacing the thought “I hope this never ends” with “let me take it all in and enjoy it right now”. It leaves me shifting from saying “Why is this happening to me!” to “This too shall pass and be forgotten and if not, be a beautiful life lesson”. It leaves me soaking in the present, treasuring what is happening right here and now. 

Treasuring who is here right now, right at this moment. This has a consequence. It means that I stop hoping it'll be as good as that one time or expecting it to be as bad. Soaking in the present, allows me to soak up the nutrients, the fullness of the nourishment of this experience that we call life.

Remember, life is a string of moments. Want to live life? Then make an effort to experience every one of those moments for what that moment is and not for how it compares to a previous one or an expected one. When you do this with an open mind and heart, then you will see that every moment has beauty. Every single moment is beautifully adding to the depth of life.