New Beginnings

Beginning Anew: New Beginnings

 

 

You are who you’ve always been, even before the thought of you was ever conceived. So, you and life will always go forth in the continuum of space and time. Where the confluence of all things and non-things always meet in every moment without pause, and so shall you – us – all of everything and time meets like never before.

But, what happens when we take something out of the equation? We then enter into an unknown and must formulate on and forward from there … anew – from the unknown to search, work and solve for the known.

If it is time that is taken out of the equation, since it is, merely, a measure of velocity – how fast something travels over a distance, or the distance something moves over a given “system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other … indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another”¹, we can see it is a construct of humankind as a device, a tool to help us understand all that which is around us. And if we use this tool as a measure of control, and if we bind ourselves too it, feeling its non-existent grip tighten around our throats to choke out any reason for hope or constricting around our chests in attempts to blight our hearts beat for life only to numb us to each moments passing – passing away eternally into the great expanse just in the very instant it was born to, barely, take its first breath – we become passive or accustomed to the very living of our lives. Soon, before we forget, before we even remember, we must act with aforethought, giving purpose, not simply to move forward without direction or to take action for the sake of action, time or sloth, but, our goal ought to be twofold; to go forth from now and every now in our lives with the purpose and causation that we’ve never given ourselves, yet, had always existed for us to live our lives with and, with ceaseless wonderment, discover all there is to discover and return to our life’s origin to begin anew, freshly awakening before we embark once more on our life’s journey over and again.

 

And in closing, I’d like to leave you with something T.S. Eliot said as only he can say it so well:

 

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all

our exploring will be to arrive at where we started

and know the place for the first time.²

 

 

 ¹(Random House Webster’s unabridged dictionary, second edition, 2001, p1984)   

² Little Gidding, from Four Quarters, British