Of our beautiful journeys
With each passing day that the ankle-biter is growing, its getting harder and harder to sit and ponder and write this blog. After a beautiful Thanksgiving break with some wonderful friends, it has taken some time to get back to normal routine.
Even though the kids are that age when most people do not like to travel, I have truly enjoyed my last few days. Each time looking into those big, brown eyes fills me with a sadness that this time is passing by too soon. Yes, it is hard and challenging and busy, but too many strangers have stopped me in the middle of mundane chores to remind me to enjoy this phase of life.
Our recent travels bought us back to where we started our journey into this new land, and back to our surroundings that we had loved so much. In a lot of ways, those places and memories were from our simpler and carefree lives.
Having spent the last week in the company of some wonderful and well-loved friends, it came as a reminder often of how much time had gone by. Or not. Of how much all of our lives had changed. As we tried to re-live the same old days over lazy days and cool, chilly mornings, it hit us how much had changed. Time changes everything and it has been truly said that the only constant thing in our lives is change and this trip re-affirmed this fact.
Just like the silent river, that often seems still but has several streams running through it, constantly, at all time. So do our lives. In so many ways and on so many levels. While somewhere in our hearts, we yearn for the times gone by and wish that we could go back to being the ‘old us’ again, on the other end, our ever-changing lives keep increasing the distance between then and now.
Several years back, in the middle of my lonely struggle, I remember my mother telling me that some things are meant to be. And that when we find the right friends and the company our hearts long for, it will be for life. And it would happen when we least expect them to come along.
This last week was spent with several such life-long friends. Where everything felt right and none was judged. Where we felt young, and simpler and carefree once again- even if for just a few days.
It has made me wonder- and understand at the same time that sometimes our life journeys are not about going to new land and new unknown places. Sometimes, our journeys bring us closer to where our hearts want to be. To reconnect us with our ‘old-self’ and retrospect on the pace and direction of life. Sometimes our journeys are a reminder to connect our past and present. And this was one such beautiful journey.
Today, I am very, very grateful for all my life-long friends- wherever you all are. You all have truly made this journey more meaningful and have given me something to look forward to each day!
