Coming of Age

I guess it happens to all of us, we reach certain points in our lives when our perspective changes. The way we view life, death, and taxes.... fun. We internalize, externalize, and theorize in a different fashion; not a dramatic shift but a pervasive one. Time does not become more valuable (although we all seem to think that) but more precious; we think more of how, who, and what we do with it. For some, it is an allocation of time from friends to family, family to friends, work to social, social to work, community to reclusion, reclusion to community; a dynamic and at times turbulent duality. A complex but necessary metamorphosis that enables us to grow, both fortunately and unfortunately this mental renascence occurs several times throughout our lives. These crucial life altering valleys or passageways have a way of shaping our lives for years to come; not exactly “light” fare for conversation. A relationship, a marriage, a career, a job, a school, a switch in major, a vacation, a soul searching crusade, a summer, a change in weather patterns, “one of these days”, “one of those nights”; All pieces to the intricate and beautiful fresco that is your life, all potentially influencing and changing the way you perceive and live life. A change in life perspective often has much to do with age, the coming to of it, the realization of it, and the way you relate it to your mental state. “ I should be mature at my age”, so you try and act it, and you hate it; “ I should be married at my age”, so you stop chasing the opposite sex just long enough to find it, “Retirement occurs at age 55”, so you retire, and regret it. If you let age stereotypes control you during the shifts in life, life will control you. As friends and seasons come and go, so do these troubling bumps in life; but how you get over them is solely up to you. Think, pray, meditate, and believe that life is beautiful.....View life as that, and your new perspective will see nothing but beauty.

Viva la Vida – Live the Life
Jh