My first boyfriend after my divorce, (19 years ago), approached me the other day on Facebook.
I had some moment of excitement like a flashback rinsing my being.
I smiled and liked the interaction.
I was thinking about the decisions we make in our life…
Like a growing tree with endless branches – we decide to take this branch and not the other.
Looking back at it, I sometimes play the game : “what if…”
What if I didn’t take that branch, or what if I continued and not jumped to an alternative one?
At the end of the journey – we’ll reach the top of our life tree.
This observation is not about regrets.
It’s looking back down the tree with all its branches and saying:
” what a nice journey. I don’t forget, all the people that moved me, special people, I’ve met”
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Avigail your excellent poem touched a string in me. You are rightly saying that taking this or that branch will lead in a new direction in life. The life tree analogy is so fitting. I used to say it is the little decisions in life that make us change direction.
Case in point: Many years ago in Montreal my friends wanted to go out, I wanted to stay home, but was persuaded to go with them. That is when I met the girl that would become my wife. One little decision!
Love your writing and am looking forward to more!
thank you FredPeyer
you make me joyful :))
be well
I share your perspective on choosing 'this way or that' and how different might our lives have been. It is an interesting exercise, but in the end matters little I believe. We experience what we are here to experience, the particular path is irrelevant. I enjoyed your fine poem a lot!
thank you Louis.. we play life in different levels of awareness... i dont know about the rest...
The path we take is definitely one of many. That's true. I have a saying, "Never give up silver for a chance to find gold." Silver is rare, gold is even rarer. If you have silver, keep it. Polish it. Maybe some day it'll shine like gold does. Thanks for sharing, lovely work.
thank you Nicholas... there are so many parameters some unconscious, that make us decide... usually later, there is a mechanism that we convince ourselves that it was a good one 🙂
You're very welcome.
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