Life is a journey, they say. But that sense of constant motion and progress is often broken by periods of stillness. Periods when life is stationary and still; and contrary to what it may seem like, this phase is not peaceful and tranquil. In fact, it feels like a trap one needs to cut through; a wall to break through or a dense forest to trample through. It feels like the warm waters trapped by a frigid arctic ice sheet waiting for that evanescent summer. In this stillness, there is a restlessness, a desperation, and a force that cannot be contained for too long.
I know you have just come but I've been at this station for a while now, dear friend. I have seen trains coming and leaving. People coming and leaving. I have seen families meeting and parting, friends becoming and unbecoming. I have seen people falling in love and falling out of it. I have seen the young and the old; even the young becoming the old. I have seen people come in and out of my life. I have seen life pass me by as I have waited for the right train. And now, I feel like I need to just move because it is the stillness that is unbearably stifling. Because now staying in the same place is scarier than going to the wrong place.
After all, what is a journey without the sense of progress? And what is life, if not a journey?
And that is why I say, come away with me. Even though, I know we just met and I am ever so glad we did...the truth is, that although I may want you by my side, I won't be able to hold on here for much too long. Cracks are appearing in the frigid layer of ice and I can see the future welling up. I know the next train is on its way and I need to take it.
Not want, my friend, but Need.
I Need to move on but I also don't want to leave you here.
So, come away with me, my friend...
We will roam the earth and walk on the clouds. We can sleep under the stars as we wait for them to fall. We will travel through the lands and write our own little stories. We will meet old friends and make new ones. We can laugh with each other and cry for each other. We will find new answers even as we rediscover old questions. We can become a little more of our better selves in learning from each other. I know we will, because, we are better than each other when we are not like each other.
We can show each other our lives and our stories because I do want to hear them all, from you. I want to hear of your best and worst moments and I want you to know of mine.
I know you have just come to this station but trust me when I say, there are better things ahead. I wish you would just come away with me and we can begin another journey, another life...
