Would my younger self be quietly proud of me now?

Oh yes. What a joy to be able to say that with the whole of my heart.

What I expected my life to look like when I was younger is far from what it does look like now. But the life I expected might have been hollow. One of accumulation, where my success was measured by stuff.

Now I try to have as little stuff as possible. To keep things simple. To not have possessions to care for, clean, manage.

My preference is for being fully alive every day. Experiencing everything. To love with the passion of youth and the wisdom of age.

I can stand in my bare feet today and know I made choices grounded in my own integrity. All of these choices, many of them so very hard to endure at the time, have given me the tools and resources to be who I am.

This is the way.

The cosmic joke is that we might arrive at our later years soaked in happiness for what the journey has created. While at times the journey itself was saturated with confusion and pain.

The gods laugh. This is the way.

Photo taken August 28th 2022

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