you are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. you are the sum of your influences. the german writer goethe said, we are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - austin kleon
I can’t agree more with this so I will just add that be yourself & love yourself for who you are and if people don’t like you then it’s there lose.
Don’t change yourself for the wrong reason like pleasing people who don’t care about you and in fact don’t even matter to you as doing this will only end up in you hating yourself for it in the end.
But all this does not means that you should misbehave with people as if nothing else then be civil in your conduct with everyone & don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.
Back to Tumbles
It’s been quite a few months since I posted my last blog post but life hasn’t stopped since then. It’s been going on full steam ahead with all of the normal hiccups like starting at a new job and being sick recently for two months at the end of which losing my voice for all most two weeks literally was no fun.
But its life and all you can do is to do your very best every day one day at a time.
Now that I have recovered and things have settled down a little bit I finally have some little time to write and write I shall this time around as I will now have this post to nag me if I don’t.
So her it is to steady postings.
A truly spectacular view, I just wish I can see it with my very own eyes in my life time.
It must be a truly remarkable feeling seeing your home world from space and trying to grasp the reality of the fact that how small and fragile it is when in comparison to the giant star next to it or the vast empty darkness with small dots of light in the ever so distant void which in turn are galaxies containing millions of stars just like ours with who knows how many planets & moons.
One can’t help but wonder if there is life out there other than us in such an immeasurable universe.
But the reality of the world is that if we don’t destroy our self’s with Wars, Global Warming, or many of the other horrible things in a long list of them I highly doubt that we will get to see a view like this in our lifetimes.
Still I will keep dreaming as it’s the one thing that nobody can take away from us and maybe someone someday with such a dream will bring it to reality, I just hope that it will be in my lifetime.
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself?
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
” Barry Lopez
