We have all heard the old saying, “we just aren’t on the same page”, or, “ time to write a new chapter in your life”.
There are many life lessons to be learned in each of those phases. Sometimes the lessons are joyful and rewarding and other times they leave us devastated and beyond a grief we cannot fathom ever recovering from.
Pages are somewhat easily turned. Those moments when there’s just something that isn’t quite right for us and we realize it’s time to move to the next page. At times I’ve dog eared those pages, so to speak, thinking maybe just maybe I’d come back to them. A do over of sorts. That never really comes about and we just go back to reading and often rereading the pages before we start to write again.
Chapters are a bit more soul searching. Our grade school years are some of those. Fortunately I was blessed living in a small southern town and allowed the opportunity to go from first grade through senior year with most of the same kids. Friendship bonds that are tight and strong. Though not seeing them often I know they are there. I can pick up my phone and speak with them as if we never missed a day apart. Even so, as senior year ended the next chapter began. Some bad life choices caused many new chapters to be written and ended over the course of the next 3 decades. Failed marriages, the birth of 3 children and tragically the loss of my oldest child. That loss is a chapter that was brutally closed without choice. I’d like to believe I learned many lessons from those chapters of my life…perhaps I learned more than I realize…I don’t feel particularly more wise or astute in my thinking or decision processes.
Books are the toughest of all to continue writing and reading then rereading…perhaps we missed something along the way…I’m quite sure I have. There are places I adamantly need to close the book. Those things that are so draining and completely exhausting that just need to end. Yet I linger hoping against hope that things will change for the better. That person, that job, that relationship and the repeated habits…they need to change and only we can change ourselves in each of them.
So before our final life book is closed on this plain it is worth pondering as to which lesson we may be in the midst of…a page, a chapter or a book.. what are we meant to learn from each of them. Some days the little things feel so overwhelming til the giant things come along blowing us out of the water ..we never saw them coming… Those epic, “War and Peace”, size books. Those books that teach us lessons we didn’t want to learn. Strength we didn’t understand that we had…that exhausting strength we never wanted to have. Yet, we learn and keep moving ….one second, one minute, one day… just pages of a day in the life…our life.
Wherever you find yourself today sweet friend know you are not alone in your life lessons…turn the page, write the next chapter. Live it to the fullest and when necessary close the book and move on.
This journey called life, our life, IS one epic journey…keep writing and reading. Do rewrites when needed. Above all, live every one to the fullest before the big book is closed. NO regrets! ❤️❤️❤️
Reflections on Life’s Journeys 
Keep writing and reading. You said that you were unsure whether you were gaining wisdom in this journey … and I say I see that wisdom even in your perspective, your realities, and in your deep questions to yourself. Never stop! It is how we grow.
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