by Ruthie Hochman

Created on: November 21, 2009

Seasons Change

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau

Life is certainly like a roller coaster - so full of ups and downs, twists and turns, highs and lows that all have a rather peculiar way of leaving your stomach perpetually in mid-air, churning and burning into deep knots of despair. Ah, the angst!

We really should just resign ourselves to the moment, and throw our hands up in the air, relinquish, release, let go, surrender. Sit back and ENJOY the ride, the absolute adventure of this journey called Life. There are times when answers to deep questions that for too long evade us just come to us in the most generously instantaneous flash of light, or insight. And finally, we feel peace and calm and know that everything is going to be alright.

It is when we seem to be most off the correct and beaten path for our distinct journeys that perhaps we are more in tune with our truth - more so than we could ever know. Perhaps we don't truly ever move forward or at all, unless we are traveling in the right direction. Perhaps we are never really as stuck or lost as we sometimes think we are either. Nothing is by chance or happenstance. Life is funny that way, sometimes vague and elusive, always keeping us on our toes. That's probably the time for us to start dancing!

Life is definitely one hell of a thrilling ride, full of the excitement of the unexpected. Maybe there are some things that last forever. Maybe real love, though anything but simple, is the only thing that is truly enduring, especially when all else fades away. Maybe the neatest thing that could ever happen to any of us is to encounter a person that we love without condition, that could do and say all the unthinkable things a person should never do or say, and yet still somehow we love them anyway, replete with faults and all.

Maybe it is only love, real love, that is eternal. Maybe this is why people say G-d is love or why people say G-d is eternal. Because only L-O-V-E, true love, real love is enduring - in spite of everything, even through all of the countless seasons and all of the constant changes.

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