My Precious

Year after year we get farther away from our memories. Tennessee Williams once said ‘Time is the longest distance between two places.’ I cannot agree more. It seems as if despite how long you may have spent away from people you shared your life with, that distance can be reduced no matter what so long as pure honesty and uninhibited truths are the methods chosen to execute such a task. There is a certain something within us all that is so uniquely ones’ own that even the individual himself is not able to run away from it or change it. We may speak differently, look differently and perhaps we may look at life through tainted filters after the years and experiences have established themselves in between the folds of our lives. Yet it all comes down to a matter of perspective and that unique something is what establishes that perspective and has been establishing those perspectives since we were born into this world. That uniqueness is what reacts to the nature of time and the experiences it holds; it determines how we look at things and how we approach life. It is the very basis from which we decide our futures. At the same time this uniqueness’ are the only buoys we have to hold onto while we float across the great unknown, with fate as an undercurrent pushing and pulling you this way and that. All we can do is swim as hard as we can to get to where we want to be, hopefully we catch a good wave and fate gets us ever closer.

We may or may not like who we swim with but it appears that we as humans, as superior as we are, cannot choose who we get to build our experiences with. In essence it is much like a smaller representation of my earlier analogy; we can swim as hard as we can towards whomever we want to share our experiences with but there is no guarantee that it will happen. Some of the best life experiences I have had have been with people I never liked. I call them great life experiences because I don’t ever want to be in that position again and I know what I do not want in my life any longer.

It is great when you do find people to swim with though. You are able to share your uniqueness with them and, that being the solid basis of your relationship with that person, creates a commonality which can always be recognized no matter how much time, pain and happiness has passed the both of you by. Just to be fair, it would be imperative that whomever you reach out to accepts that uniqueness wholeheartedly, otherwise it would just be an uneven balance. Albeit, it is comforting to know that despite how transient we human beings are, the permanence resides within. Much like anything that is meaningful in one’s life. Moving around all of my life I realize that what makes me up is the only thing I have in this world that is truly precious.

The uniqueness an individual posses is the only real thing that anyone really has in their existence. Once you are able to reach out and share that with someone you are able to establish something amazing. The experiences we have in life feed that inner uniqueness, it grows it and nourishes it. It is unfortunate that most people would rather buy the accessories to create that uniqueness as opposed to simply letting it live on its own. Protect this distinctiveness by letting it grow on its own. Expose it to full light and water well with life.