On a Birthday

 

A couple of days ago, it was my birthday. And while enjoying it as much as I could, I also thought about time, how it flies without us noticing it.

When we are young, we cannot wait to “grow up”, to have our own lives, to be “independent”, not to be told what to do every step we take…Little do we know…

We are so focused on the lives of the adults around us and trying to mirror them, that we don’t pay attention to or realize that childhood and adolescence are among the most precious periods of our lives.

Now, I just watch the years go by and I find myself asking more and more often all kinds of ridiculous philosophical questions I have no answers to.

But I don’t want to contemplate the fragility of life, the inevitability of death, or our mission on Earth. I want this time in my life to be about being grateful for the people I have in my life, for the things I’ve achieved and for the dreams I still have.

I want this time to be about the things we do for the people we love, and the importance of spending as much time with them as possible.

I want it to be about the past that brought me here, the present I have to live and the future I hope to have.

Because there is enough pain and suffering and heartbreak in our lives each and every day. And I think that, from time to time, we need to take a breath.

In order to be able to move on.