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Joining in with Lisa Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday again. Please visit her blog for more wonderful writings on this word!
Again
Here I am, again, in this city. A city I was in before, so long ago. In what seems like another life. With another life.
Today, I am so far away from where I was. While I sit in the same block of a big city, I feel like I am in a new world.
I have gone through hell, and come back again, and then gone back forth so many times. I can’t truthfully say I am so much happier now, because ignorance truly is bliss most times. However, today I am more me. I am stronger. I am wiser. I am becoming the me God has planned.
These milestone moments, returning to places and times from the past, remind me of the road I have traveled. It has been rough and dirty and filled with pot holes. But it has also been beautiful. It has been filled with sites that nothing can compare to. The highs and the lows. Those changes in altitude are what creates me.
I return to a place, again, the same but so different. A place that has not changed much, but the eyes that view it are completely different. They have seen more life, more pain, more wonder, more everything. They are the filter through which I see this city again. Through which I stop and see my life again.
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This is so beautiful! And I am in precisely the same place. Back in a familiar place that feels so new due to many changes inside me. I’ve struggled as of recent as well and I am much stronger on this side of things. I am so blessed by your writing!
Thank you so much! There is certainly truth in the saying whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Hard to remember in the midst of challenges, but is teaching me how to be grateful for the tough times as well as the good! Thanks for stopping by!
I love this. I actually wrote something with the same ideas a week or so ago. Must be something with this time of year;) Here’s what a wise person once told me: Life is not a journey down a path. It’s a journey up a mountain, a path that curves around the mountain until you reach the top. That means we revisit the same scenery each time we come ’round. However, the view is different. We are higher, more tired, maybe more invigorated, can see more of what surrounds what we saw last time. I though that was a brilliant way of looking at life. We assume we are done with the events in our life but often we are just passing through only to return again later, with new more experienced eyes.
Your observations and perspective are beautiful, as is your writing as always!
Vicky
(The Pursuit of Normal girl)
Thank you so much Vicky! I LOVE the analogy you shared!! What a perfect way to look at life and so true! Even when you feel like you are back in the exact same spot, it is somehow different every time. Thanks for sharing this!
This is very literal to me. After leaving my hometown at 18, living abroad for many years, then returning, it does indeed feel like a different place. Found you through Bloggy Moms.
Thank you so much for stopping by! It’s funny how returning to somewhere you have been prompts you to think about how much you have changed.