Love Life, Live Life

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Life; filled with obstacles, road bumps, curves, and debris. Navigating all of this takes determination, direction, passion, and love for one another. The most devastating thing in life is when you realize that the person you care for deeply isn’t affected in the manner in which you thought they might in your absence. So many times love lost, so many times life found. Not all that wander are lost. Most are in process of finding their way. Forging through and pressing on, with a destination to be determined upon arrival. 
We live our lives with the knowledge that we may never know the meaning of it all. A constant feeling of “to be determined”.  All anyone can do to avoid the feeling of helplessness is to laugh at the obscurity of life itself. Really, we start dependent upon others and end dependent upon others. What did we accomplish in the middle? Maybe find love? Maybe work our asses off for somebody else’s pockets? Maybe raise kids, and hope they turn out better than we did? And when they disappoint then what? The constant reflection of our parenting skills or lack thereof. A big fat circus filled with foolishness for the purpose of making a “higher” power amused? 
Destiny or Self-Directed? If I’m destined for where I’ve been I’ll take my chances with carving out my own path. One filled with laughter and one filled with entertainment and joy. Stress is a stupid thing. Self imposed for the purpose of making ourselves feel more important than we really are. Look at all the things passing us by? Look at all of the beauty, energy, simplicity, and complexity of life that surrounds us. What time have I made to look at this? What time have I set aside to take a slow stroll down the street, through the park? When was the last time any of us went anywhere without a premeditated purpose. Where did the spontaneity go in life? Remember back to your childhood when everyday was a new day. Something new to learn, something new to do. And with each new discovery came a new sense of accomplishment, even if we didn’t recognize it as such. 
Today I pledge to live with the purpose of no purpose. Only in the meaning that nothing is too important to get upset or anxious about. Things will occur good and bad. How you handle each is what determines character. Love life, live life.

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