I met a lovely earthling today.  I peek through his brain and seen the wealth of knowledge and wisdom residing in there.  It took me all the way to the depths of his heart and had a glimpse of profound beauty and substance, where a steady light glows and such tenderness dwells.  It fills me with awe, respect, admiration and inspiration — things that aren’t alien to me but now just being renewed… as this man’s not someone new to me, having met him in our youth, but only recently that I came to “know”…  I’m seeing him in a different light.

Everyday brings new discovery.  There’s always something new waiting to be unraveled, discovered, and deeply explored… in the old things.  Details we missed which were deemed trivial, insignificant, or simply taken for granted and cast aside, now loom larger than life.  Only when we’re ready for the moment, when all our senses are open, will things make sense and fall into place… when the time is right… and ripe.

In our haste to bloom we don’t want to go through the inconvenience and hassles of going through the proper stages of development.  Human nature: I-want-this-and-I-want-this-NOW syndrome.  A wise man had this to say, “when the days of youth have passed into the mists of time and the age of maturity begins, it’s the time to bloom.”  We’re too immature to pay heed and just plunge straight ahead… because it pleases and gives us a high — temporarily.  A short-range vision.  In our impatience to reach our desired destination we tend to develop a tunnel vision– focusing only on the desired goal, not completely in tune with the current location, blocking out the ‘disturbances’, unmindful of the given moment– the now.  We become impulsive, restless, irresponsible, and reckless… the intensity of emotions go beyond our control.  We race ourselves into steep, sharp-curved and dangerous highways without so much thought.  Why?  For the thrill, fun, excitement, and adventure?  Could be… or to reach the desired destination as fast as your recklessness can take you, as fast as humanly possible.  One missed turn and you end up dead and cold.  So much for impatience.

We meet a new person who instantly sweep us off our feet.  For a while we think he’s awesome and adorable, and inspires us to explore a new world.  In the midst of the exploration you get to uncover the soul within the awesome new creature… awful.  What you first thought to be of much substance turned out to be hollow.  When the newness wears off, the luster fades, you get to see the real value — or the lack there of.  Your eyes could have played tricks on you.  You could have made an error in judgment.  What appeared to be of profound depth’s actually a sea of shallowness.  You just met a wolf in a sheep’s clothing.
Do you regret the encounter?  Should not.  It’s fate’s way of telling you to slow down, showing you a different highway, introducing you to the not-so-unusual character of the human family.  It’s nature’s way of teaching us lessons…  One lesson would be leading us back to where we should be putting much effort, energy, and commitment on — to who we are inside and who the people who’ve been with us almost all our life, and seeing everything in a new light.  It’s only when we struggle to comprehend and think profoundly that we get to understand things, the nature of things.

Yep!  I met a lovely old love and buddy today…  It’s been an 18 years of friendship and fate keeps throwing us back to each other’s lives.  We’ve gone farther.  We’ve grown stronger…

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