Forward!

Life is more than things.  Life is more than people. Sure, those bring meaning to life, but life would exist without them.  Technically.  It wouldn’t be a very colorful and meaningful life. But it would go on.  So, my real point is that life’s meaning and beginning starts elsewhere.  Inside.  The assessment of who you are and what you are doing here.  How do you identify yourself and put this meaning in your life?  It starts with purpose.  It is carried in purpose.  It is evaluated in purpose.  Beginning.  Middle.  End.  Just like a good book.  That’s the nature of everything, really.  Though catastrophic things happen in life that make us think we are nearing the end---hardships, trials, loss of relationships, etc.---we are the ones who decide if it is just the middle and that our best days are not behind us.  That is the dread that I, for one, deal with.  And I’m sure it does others just like me.  So, what do we do?  We drive forward, doing what we do, caring like we care, and loving like we always loved.  And realize that the dream still hanging around haunting us, may not be the past taunting us but a viable future calling us forward.