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Go, Wander in Wonder
April 4, 2008Things that slip by without you really noticing: water, dead leaves, cars, time, the pages of a very riveting story, sensations, hope, workdays, people you’ve loved for so long you no longer remember when you first loved them or why.
Sometimes, it’s simple to say goodbye to these things, and sometimes it’s just so hard, and sometimes, you feel raw with the blinding need to hold them close and keep them from slipping loose.
You know these things that slip by without your noticing them are the things that make up a life. In fact, you could still remember a time when everything and everyone around you had been so huge, so amazing, so wonderful. Once, you thought the water that trickled in between fingers was the liquid that kept everything alive. Once, dead leaves were the fronds you wished upon and scrawled verses on. Once, cars had been those amazing little machines that could traverse secret highways and an enchanted underpass. And once, not too long ago, his laugh was the sound that drew unicorns, vanquished fears, and healed wounds.
Then, one day, everything just shrank. You grew up, grew older, and things began to fit your grasp. You understood how the laws of the universe worked; and wonder started seeping out of your life.
It would be so much easier if you could remember the stillness and the wonder. Instead, what you remember are your mistakes, the precise science of the universe, the dust that lined your shoes when you stumbled, and the lines that now line your face.
Child of the world and all broken things, this is then the task you must force upon yourself. Find magic however way you can. Recognize beauty wherever you see it. While you are of dust, bone, and human fragility, you are also a walking, breathing marvel. You are made of kindness and luminescence; and randomly, you are capable of beauty.
Go, wander in wonder.
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Makahilak man sad ta ani Chin! waaahhh! …Seriously, nostalgia is a killer, throw it out the window! LOL!
Posted by MargauxD at April 8, 2008, 4:37 pm