runstrails wrote:Snowheight wrote: 'Trails!

.. doin' good thanks for asking. .. I'd say that the most sure-fire way to have life surprise you is to develop an expectation about the future. The material world "spins ever madly on" with it's demands but with each passing year the ephemerality of moment-to-moment existence seems to deepen into an ever lighter dance .. if ya' know what I mean, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you very likely do. Image
My pleasure on the poem. Was from a little over a year ago, but I figured some of you here might like it. Hope the job isn't banging your brain and stressing you out too much, hope your running or whatever else you do these days is going well and best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks, Snowy. Always a pleasure to hear from you and I love this: "he ephemerality of moment-to-moment existence seems to deepen into an ever lighter dance ..". Could not agree more. Although sometimes I wonder if its just getting older that brings this perspective rather than anything to do with spirituality

Cheers, rt
Fair question!
There are as many possible descriptions of the scent of a rose as there are people who have lived, but the commonality between them gives us the meaning of the word sweet. Similarly, in
relative terms, there are many ways to come to peace with this life while we're still here. Yes, it's a natural and common experience for resistance to living to trail off with age.
But the permanent cessation of any shred of existential dread, the end of the possibility of any real and meaningful regret, and the unshakable certainty of the nature of personal death, isn't a
relative matter, although language and the reasoning faculty of mind will always betray us on this topic if we approach it with them.
One notable relative difference here is that a mature acceptance of what life brings usually sacrifices passion. In the lightness of the dance, there remains a potential intensity of engagement with the music, the moves, and our dance partners.

Stop talking. Hear every sound as background. Look straight ahead and focus. Take one deep breath. This is you. This is Now.