This blog has been a long time coming. I've been waiting for the right day, the right life event to spark some polar moment to give me reason enough to begin what I've been doing for as long as I can remember, but I don't want to spend my life waiting. Starting now. For the past few months, I've been dying to be a replication of something authentic but that all ends today. I no longer wish to be the mirror when I can be the one casting the reflection.
At 17 years of age and a senior in high school, I find the time to close this chapter of my life rapidly approaching. The time for parting with familiar faces and leaving behind memory filled places will soon be upon me, but if life has taught me one thing, it's that it goes on. I'm unafraid of what the future holds because I'm certain that in the end, no matter what happens, I'll be alright. With a mindset open to variation, the possibilities are endless. This chapter is ending, but what is forgotten are the pages that are turned far more often in order for that chapter to progress. Decisions are made monthly, weekly, daily that effect what words are inscribed in my story of life. I linger on some pages and don't offer a second-glance to others, but page after page, choice after choice, my story is writing itself.
As much as we'd like life to be as black and white as ink against paper, it's far from it. Choices are often far from simple. Circumstances endlessly complicated. Factors pile upon factors. Reason upon reason. Transcending all seasons. Complexity is on the rise leading to my fear that simplicity has reached it's demise. Many of the best things are products of simple moments evoked by simple thoughts and desires. The ever present complexity is what makes simplicity so incredible. Life is going to throw many situations at me and many decisions will have to be made. So as this chapter comes to a close, I'll turn the page and let the next begin. Word by word, and day by day I'll be finding my way through the grey.
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