As age offers a new embrace on life, now comes the time to make new moves in life. No, I am not 20 anymore, nor do I have the energy of a child, but I have something that is even better. I have knowledge and freedom to be whoever I desire to be. I want to learn something? Well, I can, because I pretty much decide on everything now. This is a lesson to be well kept in the mind. People tend to look at aging as this adverse effect of life, however it is a good remainder as to where you have come, and as to where you came from. I can’t say my life is worst off now than before. If anything, I have never smelled this freedom in my life, and I can only imagine the possibilities of tomorrow. I can sing, I can snowboard, and I can pretty much do anything I set my mind onto. Back at my younger age, I obsessed with marking my spot and becoming somebody, now I don’t anymore, and it’s weird to come from one place to another without ever coming aware of change. It just happens, and you don’t really have much input on it. I guess after living so many experiences and time having passed, it just makes sense and we just don’t really reflect on it. It’s like my own younger self used to say: in life your shadow follows you until it catches up to you. Time is a beauty and as amazing as it sounds, it is based on a rudimentary principal that it doesn’t exist. It is an illusion of motion and flow of life.

I understand too that I’m not the only one going through this motion in life. I see people from my life all moving along a similar direction and meeting their own shadows. It might be ambitions, it might be jobs, or it might be family but all the things you can think of, there were always a part of you. It was following you like a shadow just waiting on the right time to cross your path, and then boom, voila! Part of me feels proud for people to have found their places. If we ever crossed paths, it’s because I believed you were worthy in my eyes. I seen something wonderful about you, and I felt connected enough that I believed in you, as much as I believed in myself. When I was younger, I didn’t take care of myself enough and now that I’m older, I know I should have, but the better part of me knows also that I did always what I thought was right in the moment. We can look back and reflect upon things however regretting them would be applying today’s lens into another time’s perspective and you can’t just do that. It just simply isn’t fair to compare things you can barely remember. This is why I don’t live in regrets and I move forward in my life, no matter how dark my past seems at times. Regrets would mean I had a different choice at the time, but I know at the time, and I remember, I contemplated on other choices, but it felt I had none. Now I can’t regret the things I had zero control over and you might say I just didn’t see them but I had choice, however you go back to my life, walk in my shoes and see from my eyes, and tell me you wouldn’t have done the same. Otherwise, we just contemplate on hypotheticals and to me, that’s just that.

So what do we do now? Do we walk faster, slower or we just continue our way without putting in the thoughts? Just close your mind at a given moment where you feel fortunate, and save that mental picture of where you are, how you feel, how blessed you are. It is a remainder that life is beautiful, and you can always find your ray of light, just if you pay attention to where you are and where you been. Like I’ve always said: it doesn’t matter where you go, as long as you know where you are. Just breath in, breath out and find a new way of looking at life.