Turn of the tide
May. 31st, 2018 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glitch25They always say that you should live in the moment. That you should live as though the day might be your last. Thinking about preparing for our last days might be dramatic. Realistically, change is all around. While some we can predict, others come without warning, swiftly rearranging what we know to be true.
Having undergone a little change myself recently, I find myself with mixed feelings about those proverbial preparations. Things I never got around to doing. People I never met, but whom I depended on in my version of reality to share the space I am in and to exist in a familiar way. Things I won't ever get to do again in the same way. People I will probably never see again. Connections I may never make, and was too shy to make when I had better chance.
On the other side, there were connections I did make. Some good ones. Things I did set out to do and did accomplish. Experiences I deliberately enabled to happen that I'd have missed out on if I didn't.
I guess my point is that it is worth making that extra effort to have those experiences and to make those connections. Sometimes doing that will enable them to weather the turn of the tide. And even if they don't... Better to know you did your best and made the most of what you had than to look back and wish you had done things differently.
Having undergone a little change myself recently, I find myself with mixed feelings about those proverbial preparations. Things I never got around to doing. People I never met, but whom I depended on in my version of reality to share the space I am in and to exist in a familiar way. Things I won't ever get to do again in the same way. People I will probably never see again. Connections I may never make, and was too shy to make when I had better chance.
On the other side, there were connections I did make. Some good ones. Things I did set out to do and did accomplish. Experiences I deliberately enabled to happen that I'd have missed out on if I didn't.
I guess my point is that it is worth making that extra effort to have those experiences and to make those connections. Sometimes doing that will enable them to weather the turn of the tide. And even if they don't... Better to know you did your best and made the most of what you had than to look back and wish you had done things differently.
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Date: 2018-06-01 06:41 pm (UTC)