Dan Carter once said, ~Every monring is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my owrld made new. I have lived my life up to this moment to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.~ There comes a point in every person's life where change happens. Initially, it can be a much needed change where you literally and metaphorically leave part of your past behind to move forward to your anticipated present/future. A present/future where not only you get a new lease on life but also the people who are close to you as well.
Oftentimes, the changes a person expereinces can be well worth the pain and tears suffered as a new path opens up, but yet still on the same journey. One of those experiences in life is when a divorce happens that may or may not affect children/parent inwardly and/or outwardly to the point where unresolved issues/feelings, if any, are or have been expressed. However, it can be truly a liberating situation indeed as you feel one of the many dramas in your life come to a close and the pressure has been lifted off your shoulders, which can make one's journey a bit more tolerable. For the circumstances which led up to the divorce is really no one's business except your own and those who were closely part of one's inner circle who have been there for you through good times and bad.
With a new found sense of freedom, one leaves behind a place that you once called home that gave you lasting memories for another home to make new memories in. Though you leave behind a place that you practically grew up in and physically take with your possesions. For its not only the material possession you take along, you also metaphorically take certain unforgettable memories with you that made you laugh, cry, and smile. Let me ask you this question, what were you absolute best memories that you took with you to your new home and did you leave any unwanted memories behind in a place that you once hanged your hat in, so to speak.
Without a doubt, you can be absolutely nostalgic as you begin a new life/path to some new surroundings. Surroundings, in which you personally make that particular home your own and decorating it with one's own style and personality. Yet, if you think about it, the new path that you and your family is traveling on will fork off as each of you individually live your own lives. Subsequently, a new chapters is created in each of your autobiographies, in which the details may or may not be exaggerated. For each chapters in your proverbial life story have pages that haven't been written in yet and you get the chance to fill those pages with new memories, experiences, and most all friends both current and new.
In retrospect, you never really know what other people are going through and the situations that they may be facing until you find out for yourself. In a sense, other people may be going through the exact same thing but the situation is a bit different, which unknowingly bonds people together. Ultimately, whether its down the street, up the street, across the street, miles apart, or across the sea any place you live in is considered home once you make it a home. I end this thought with a pop culture reference with one of my favorite shows as a kid The Jeffersons, which is you're movin on up to something better, even though you are moving down the street.
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