MUSINGS FROM MIDLIFE
My Stories
Surrendering to the Flow of Life
“Nothing is permanent. Everything is temporary. Every moment gives you a new ending and a new beginning. You literally get a second chance every second. Once you understand this, you can do almost anything, or go almost anywhere, because you’re not holding on to everything anymore.” Marcadangel
Camping last Christmas, I serendipitously bump into an old friend. Sitting under the canopy of a luscious tree in the stinking summer heat she tells me about a book called The Surrender Experiment.
I immediately order it. I like a bit of a challenge.
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you did not stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognised as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.