Gatorade ate my doggy!
I've been listening and re-listening to an album of remixed video game music for a few days now. It sounds good but it also brings back a lot of memories. The games in question were from the late 80s and I played them on my 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Now here I am, all grown up, still listening to that sweet music.
I've also been spending more time as of late with children, one who is as old I was when I played those games with the sweet music. It's remarkable how things from that era that I have such fond memories of, he has none. Those times seem as far away and dusty to him as the times before me seemed when I was his age. But now I'm all grown up. Experienced enough to see the cycle of life complete for the first time. No longer is every experience new and amazing, now they begin to seem so oddly familiar. "Haven't I been here before?" "Haven't I seen this somewhere already?" These emotions, these feelings. :)
What then about life. This cycle, this cycle of life. I think about the current financial mess this country is in and it honestly makes me smile and feel joy. Not so much because people are losing their jobs, not because I'll have to deal with lowered paychecks for a while, but because there's so little balance in this country, so little sustainability, and this is an opportunity to gain those things. The concept of never-ending growth is a fairy tale, one I think we're coming out of the clutches of. One needs patience for sustainability, one must wait for things to happen on their own schedule, acceptance of what is. It's very easy to be peaceful in such a state, to be in balance. Our sun could end in an instant by exploding or collapsing in on itself, but yet it has found its balance and has sustained itself for billions of years and billions to come.
I like cataloging my life, jotting down notes as I skip along in it. I wonder what my future self will think of me now. I think of my past self and I'm so abundantly happy. At times I wasn't always so, but the harvest of a life can produce much to gush over.