show up

i think it's strikingly remarkable how quickly our paths can cross another human - a real human - with thoughts, emotions and stories all their own.  equally striking, then, becomes the sudden impact such stories and events can sweepingly have over our lives in unexpected ways, bringing joy and sorrow in equally surprising turns.  a casual glance that leads to a conversation that turns into a friendship that brings with it the roller coaster of human existence - of true LIFE with it.  the right turn that turned into a left because of a sneeze and brings us face to face with another person who impacts us slowly yet continuously that we never knew existed if we hadn't added pepper to our burger.  i think my only conclusion is that life happens unexpectedly - our only command is to show up.

expansion of this topic threatens to belittle the impact of such a simple paragraph, yet i can't stress enough the pureness of looking at an object fully dead on only to realize the extension reaches to an unseen horizon of depth.  getting the overwhelming feeling that i'm on the verge of discovery to only realize my own ineptitude of grappling with complete breadth - my own unforseen lack of understanding and even my own fears.  wrapping myself in my tiny blanket of my own existence, discarding different quilts without realizing they are mere patches in a greater work unseen through my carefully selected lenses.  life does happen - unexpected, sometimes undesired.  persevering and treading on - that is experience and it's own twisted happiness.