Saturday, November 22, 2008

Now Never Ends

It is true. Everything they say; it is true. What goes around comes around. What comes around goes around. You reap what you sow. Today is tomorrow yesterday, all those old sayings are true, but they are not THE Truth, the sort with a capital T. They are just the beginning of the story. They are the teasers, not the bitter end and that is what most of us need to figure out.

Because the sowing and the reaping just keep right on happening. The reaping brings forth new seeds, seeds that survived and so the sowing becomes one done with slightly different seeds and the next reaping reflects this. In this moment I am reaping and sowing in infinity. And the coming and going around are gathering so much momentum that it is like a carousel caught in time. I am limited only by myself, by my own perceptions, my own ability to hang on and look around.

Nothing changes. It has all happened before and will all happen again. The words pointing to it alter. The eyes perceiving it grow bright and dim. The mind understanding it is limited only by its self.

In the end there probably is no end, I still don't know. I do know that it is me in this moment that experiences what it is, and that is all I have to work with. Yes, Virginia, you can make a purse out of a sow's ear. You can turn this moment into one of ecstasy or agony. You can be whatever it is you are in all reality and you can keep on being that as long as you want to. This is the important stuff, the gist of it all. This is the light at the end of the tunnel and the tunnel and the tunnel. Didn't anyone ever tell you that it is what happens in that dark tunnel that makes the difference? Some tunnels are long and some are so short they don't exist, but they are the road here.

So buck up. Whatever happens in this moment is up to you and it will take everything you have to be it. The good news is you can't fail, because Now never ends.

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