Journal #20

Where do we begin? A small thought in our mother's head, one day hoping to become real. After time and love. As we grow in our mother's stomach, gradually, physically expending it, we get bigger and bigger. We feed from or mother's body, feeling the great love she gives, but after time, we must leave. As our journey to life begins, we start as a young, naive child, viewing the world as a magical place, full of surprises and mystery. Slowly as our legs and arms grow longer, and our minds get bigger, we view the world as a new place. A place full of people to meet and sights to see, we come to realize it is not that magical, but just where we have been dropped upon to go on and live our life. As adults we become, we feel the wisdom and experience set in. Our skin is not the youthful, clean skin it once was, but a canvas of the past we have had. We then see our children go through the same things we once did, and wish for it again. Our close relationships stay strong, and the distant ones fall, as we realize our true fiends. Then we get to the state of elderly, where we have finally realized we are not the young child running to our parents when they return from a long day at work, but the grandparents that get visited every so often. Our bodies to longer fit, but aching along, showing years of life and past events. Our children now come to us and ask for advice they expect to be knowledge and wisdom filled. Then as the curtain of our life begins to fall we get slower and slower, realizing it is the end. As we silently pass and are buried in the ground, we begin to become one with the earth, its dirt emerging us and its animals making a home. Our bodies remain but our spirit lives on, joining our parents and doing as they have done since they have completed the cycle of life also.