A Random Ramble — This Journey

A Random Ramble about Life

Life is hard. Understatement of the century I know; it’s hard in a multitude of different ways and differently hard for different people. I know whatever I am going through now, and have gone through in the past, pale in comparison to the hardships and life-struggles of others, on all sides of the world.

Babies are dying from starvation before they’ve learnt their first word… families, whole towns, are being uprooted from not just their homes but their homeland. My problems are minor issues compared with such hardships. I have food water housing and live a life free from fear and violence.

But I do feel like life has sucker-punched me at the moment; the college I was studying at fell under the pressure of government changes and has closed its doors. I feel robbed of the quiet self-employed future I was dreaming of… I won’t be graduating with a diploma in hand. I’m a little lost and wonder what the future holds.

However, it may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey…and foolish it would be to think that the journey is not filled with a mixture of both dark and light… and more foolish still to believe such things come in equal measure dark and light, love, pain, happiness, for even the seasons do not offer sun and rain in equal measure and humanity as a whole are often heard to complain it’s too hot…too cold… too dry… not rain again… we are a hard race to please.

As surely as the sunset fades into the dark of night so too does the journey of life rise and set on many lessons. Lesson that can be harsh and razor sharp… grief filled moments of incomprehensible dark, but Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment, or so it is said.

A coach to guide us through the fog and out to the sunshine on the other side, battered, perhaps… burnt out, maybe; but wiser… stronger… more in control of our destiny even if we cannot see it at the time… but a time will come, some future time when the lessons learned in the past will provide the answers to a new dilemma… hopefully;

There will be no lightning bolts from the sky, no mysterious voice explaining why (or perhaps there will) but most likely simply a quite epiphany… an inner realization, an aha moment that dawns like the gentle sunrise warming a weary and life-worn spirit…

… Even the strongest eagle cannot soar as high as the stars and must learn just how far they can travel and so must we…

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly

and it is up to us, as travelers on a unique journey, to keep our fire burning through the toils of life.

Life is full of ups and downs. It’s full of unrealized dreams. It can seem hard and unfair… but there is always someone, a family of someone’s, entire countries, where life is far great a struggle then our own.

The best we can do is really cherish the good times, value friendships and love and hope to hell our coping skills are enough to get us through the tough times.

And now I have a lot more time on my hands, to get into mischief… and think up new dreams.

Peace Love & Hugs to All — Sharon

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I still have far to travel

much to still learn

and new dreams to dream.

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Sharon Lee Goodhand©

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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, 
 we have come to our real work 
 and when we no longer know which way to go, 
 we have begun our real journey. 
 
 The mind that is not baffled is not employed. 
 The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell Berry

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly Eskimo Proverb