Practicality over mindset. Process over results. These are a couple of the philosophies I live by. In the new role I have stepped into I have had to enforce these ideas in conversations with different people. Most of the times when we go through a transition period in life we don’t realize it. It is other people that point out we have become different, but here I am fully realizing I am shedding skin.
This isn’t new to me. It happened when the boys were born. It is the circle of life. The Alpha and Omega if you will. At the birth of my children I become a new person and I am once again at the death of my father. Thus are the turns of life.
There is a very famous musical that is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year. One of the themes from that musical is that you cannot control who lives, who dies, who tells your story, and while I cannot control the story told about me I can recognize some of the plot twists.
Here I am along a winding path and I know not where it leads. The best approach is to take one day at a time and live in the present, but I can feel all possibilities of the future closing down on me. The bright and happy ones as well as the sad and dreadful ones. The future is uncertain and while we are in control of ourselves we aren’t in control of anyone else.
It was like this past winter when we got a big snow storm. I was worried about driving in the snow. Not because of myself but because I live in an area where it rarely snows. I remember having to go out, coming out of the neighborhood, and the first thing I see is a guy walking right down the middle of the road. It is a common sight during snow storms and I’ve seen it everywhere from Laskin Rd to Rt 50 to Rt 33. This time I threw my arms up in the air and exclaimed, “There you are. The king of the morons.” The exact reason I didn’t want to drive in the snow.
That is life. We can do everything right. Take every right step, have the best process, focus on the practical and proven methods, and still end up being undone by forces outside of our control. All I can do is stick to who I am while becoming someone new.
David Huzzard Writes 