35 minutes to pick-up time. Instead of journaling inside, drinking coffee and being locked indoors, the time was taken to walk to the coffee shop. A calming breeze, sun hidden behind trees, birds chirping loudly. Deciding if 90’s music in the background is appreciated or not.
Life in flux. Something new learned in the morning, affects the day. Will affect tomorrow. Stack new tomorrow. Repeat. Each day possibilities.
What if what is had is being wasted? Would someone else wish to have the opportunities I have been provided? Could someone look at what is before me and think “how dare you” not appreciate it every day? Looking forward wanting what others have. Jealous. “Missing” from life, what could be “if only”. Never looking back and seeing what others see about you. How they look and think “if only”.
What if looking back is moving forward? Instead of reaching for goals, reaching back, and pulling up. Would we admire the one that reached the top having left more behind? Or the one that never made it to the middle but pulled up many to her or his level?
History will remember the one at the top. Many will remember the one in the middle.
I do not write for you. I write for me. And share with you. Reaching from the middle. This may be my summit. The peak reached. Because it is not the top there are places to go.
A Vegan Father… deciding he does appreciate the 90’s music in the background.
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