It
sometimes seems awe-inspiring to me how many possibilities exist in my life –
how many different thoughts, feelings, and events could maybe happen, even in
the next few moments. It’s like I’m a small but essential stream in an endless
ocean of possibilities. Who knows what will happen in the next few hours, or
even the next few seconds – what current of life will come and carry me along,
what thoughts will waft me here and there, what surprises will suddenly show
themselves? The verb “to surprise” originally meant “to seize”, and it does
sometimes seem like I’m seized, moment by moment, by one startling surprise
after another. True, I don’t often think about this startling aspect of life –
this tendency of life to be reborn and brand-new each moment – but it’s there,
nonetheless. Each second, the shoreless ocean of my life shifts, a little or a
lot, and a new and splendid surprise arises.
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