It’s a rainy one today, dark and gloomy, with the air heavy. It’s warmer though, so definitely no snow on the way.
Which is good, given the rain. I hate when it ices over like that, the roads get so dangerous.
We’ve come to the end of the week at the end of the year, a year that never felt quite real to me, and I wonder how it all just went, one day after the next. On and on up to now.
It’s not a particularly deep thought or an especially original one, even here, but sometime it seems like we are ants on a leaf (if we’re lucky) adrift on a sea too vast for us to even consider as a concept, floating and bobbing and doing our best not to lose our footing.
And footing on a floating leaf on a sea too vast for us to even consider is a tricky thing to maintain.
So if you have gotten to now, good job. Without facetiousness, without demand of any further accomplishment or effort, good job. You’ve faced cresting waves you didn’t anticipate or imagine, you’ve held on when the wind made everything choppy.
And if you’ve done even more than that this year, how amazing does that make you? How incredible that you not only held on to your little floating leaf, but you built something with it, something that may have made the ride harder at times, something that was tough to construct on an always-moving foundation.
Let’s not focus on the things we didn’t do, on the people we could have been, if only for a different leaf or more leaves.
Let us thank ourselves for staying on the leaf we have, even when the water on top made us unsure it would remain seaworthy.
Have a wonderful weekend, and if you celebrate Christmas, have a great one, though I expect to post on Monday.
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