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| the art of being here While I was seeing that boy dancing with the water like if nobody could see him, so focused on his own fun, unaware of the world around him, I discovered myself admiring his ability to surrender to the immediacy of his own wishes, to repond to life spontaneously. After a short reflection I realized that I am not naive enough to be so happily carefree: wounds, experiences, disappointments, prejudices and fears make it impossible. But I also realized that I wouldn´t like to exchange his life for mine, I wouldn´t like to live it all over again to become an adult, especially when now I can be back to joy and the sense of full belonging to the moment I am living while keeping what I have learned. Especially when right now I feel that I have started to live consciously, when I am finally figuring out what life is about. No, I wouldn´t like to be a child again, especially when now I can have that carelessness attitude without the sense of strangeness. Especially when now I can live without needing to reach certain goals or places, when now I can live like if I were dancing, enjoying every step, lost in the pleasure of the movement. I have come finally to the conclusion that this journey itself is the point, that I don´t have to fulfill anything determined in advance, just to go gracefully with the immediate moment and its gifts... so why should I want to leave this sweet stage of my existence where I have the best of being a child and the best of having lived half a life? Why, if now I can bow down to my destiny with my mind well-balanced and my heart open?... When the boy was about to complete his fourth lap to the fountain, I got up, and I followed my path and I could feel that my soul was making a little dance, celebrating the acknowledgement of this simple truth. |
28.7.14
DAY 540
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6 comments:
What an absolutely beautiful post! I love what you said about bowing down to your destiny with a well balanced mind and an open heart and following your path. And I really like knowing that your soul did a little dance!
Why indeed as you so eloquently say....I have often wanted to visit pockets of time when I was 5 or 7 or 9 yrs old for a day here and there....but instead we can bring back that feeling and that time in our thoughts and actions....much like a part of a spiritual practice.
Such a graceful moment of thoughts and reflection, that boy and that photo- beautiful!!! and everything seems to be so right in place and time!
Your thoughts are so lovely :-)
Life is a journey, a journey for learning :-)
love these truths which you can find and act out as an adult.
Beautifully said! I think you've discovered the true meaning of Life.
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