Leaning forward into time

When I look at this image I'm transported to the time and place I took it and the feelings I had at in that moment - My life is so much different now, only a few short months later, the future has unfolded and I'm a different person - Better I'd say. That makes this simple picture a powerful image - A reminder that time passes, and I move with it.

I don't always feel on top of the world; I'd not believe anyone who said they do actually. We are human beings and our pendulum's swing both ways rarely staying in the same place for very long at all. Of course, that's what we usually want though, the best of things. It would be amazing to feel perpetually happy, but also quite impossible as life gets in the way of our best intentions sometimes, it ebbs and flows like the tide on that beach below. I guess the key is to value the moments we have knowing they will pass.

I certainly can't say I always feel happy but conversely I'm not always unhappy...It's a balance, like light and dark, night and day...The wheel turns, and I with it, passenger and driver both; I take the good with the bad and adapt, overcome or adjust as required. Overall I would say I have an average life and am an average human man who has brilliant moments and dark ones. I'm ok with that.

I've always been one to reflect, to think about how I feel and why; I discover the reasons for feeling happy so that I don't take them for granted and the reasons I do not feel so happy so I can [ideally] deal with them, or at least mitigate their effects upon my present and future.

Much of this process happens when I am alone, away from people altogether, and that is why I come to places like this beach. It brings clarity and the passing of time seems more pronounced here...Sunsets have a way of announcing an end-point and hinting at the promise of a new one. Endings and beginnings, the turning of the wheel - The inexorable passing of time and shifting of thought. Sunsets always punctuate this for me.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. - Sophocles

The pendulum that is our lives swings back and forth, balanced to a degree one could say, but in truth I feel our lives are weighted, or leaned, forward because that's the way they move - Time ensures it and so I find myself leaning forward into time.

Life isn't a stable jetty or boardwalk firmly planted deep into the Earth immobile and stable...Life is fluid like the tide; Perpetually moving this way and that and it swells, recedes and repeats...But time only goes one way, there's no going back. Forward, always forward.

Like our friend Sophocles says above, time moves everything...Nothing is impossible, and I tend to agree. So I like to lean forward. That doesn't mean I forget the past, just that I take those before moments, good and bad, and apply them to the future ensuring that as the wheel turns I move along with it and have the chance to make what may, at first, seem like impossibilities, or improbabilities, and move them forward into realities.

I see you clearly and I'm coming for you future.