Hot and Cold

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

– Robert Frost

But have you ever wanted it to stop? Have you ever looked out the window, felt a deep sting in your chest, and pled time stopped? Because haven’t we all? In life, we hope some stay and hope some leave. Because what else is life other than a concoction of emotions from different entities colliding and creating chaos, for some, and comfort for others. Earth, in fact, could win the race in the current galaxy of producing the maximum amount of emotions at light speed. We live amidst constant feelings. Vibrant, tumultuous, high-strung emotions are being released, captured, reformed, and released again into the environment. And in between this, we all live. Survive. Rejoice. Mourn. But anyhow, live. Because life goes on. Often, while staring out into nothingness I have that sting; that impossible urge to somehow go back. But life runs forward and it runs fast. I blink my urge away and it’s gone. You don’t stop living now because of how you lived in your past. It is a natural human tendency to seek comfort in what we have experienced, aka, our past. And we mourn what we had before but don’t have anymore. But that is how it is to be. This is not adjusting or denying, this is accepting. What is gone is not always for good and what is to come is also, not always, for good. What we leave behind did give us comfort at some point and what is to come will cause us distress. Nothing is ever alright. But in the process of growing, we realize we are to experience our emotions in a new light and change is inevitable. Certain things happen in certain ways and it is in nobody’s control, but it happens anyway. And we live on despite. People, things, and emotions, we thought would stay forever, don’t. But while they leave, something new comes. Life continuously teaches us that the point of living is to experience new, experience change, and experience growth. Real, honest, emotional growth is our hope to live. We rebuild ourselves with the some that stay and with the some that arrive. It goes on. It must go on.