Grey Light

20. Something Marvelous

20. Something Marvelous

            The thing with life is that nothing is ever constant, everything is transient and everything is irreplaceable. Some people think that’s frightening—I think it’s rather beautiful. Who’s to say everything won’t change in the next second? Today, This is your life; tomorrow, it might just be That. And maybe That will be beautiful, or maybe That will be painful and you wish you could go back to This, but you can’t; and eventually you’ll learn to see the beauty in That and learn to appreciate all its magic and in time, you’ll come to love it just as much as you once loved your old life. You never know who you might meet, what you might see, what something might suddenly mean to you. And when the only constant in life is that it’s never constant, the only thing you can know for sure when a cloud passes over the sun is that there will be a moment when it passes away again. Every time you feel hurt, feel anger or sadness; every time you frown, shout, or cry, it’s all only an instant in time—in the next you might be up and laughing and happy because of some little thing you never knew before, because the world is full of ever-changing mysteries that are just there, waiting for us to discover them. We were born to live; and there’s a whole world out there in front of your eyes, and an entire life in front of us. We were born to be alive in a real world and to see this beautiful world and to experience beautiful things and to feel beautiful things.             

            When you think about it, the world is quite marvelous. Every day the only thing you have to do is wake up and get up and get out of bed, and say hello to the sun and smile at someone you love and breathe and live. And when your time is up all you have to do is close your eyes and welcome whatever might come next—and who’s to say that won’t be beautiful, too?