An Eventful Month!

Where have I been over the past month or so? Well, just let me explain to you a few of the things that I have been able to experience and maybe then you can let me off the hook. In this seemingly short frame of time I have been blessed to find true love, a new home, and begin what I hope is the final leg of my journey toward career stability.

Yes, these all combine to form quite the plethora of reasons for my noted absense from these blogyards. I have found true love in the form of a new car (ahhhh...not what you were thinking I sense), a new home in Kingston Ontario (and Ottawa alternately) and have started my first year of a law degree that will hopefully be the beginning of the end for all of this school and studying business, God Willing.

The somewhat tumultuous nature of these past few months has NOT however, prevented me from some introspection and analysis into what is transpiring in my life. Momentuous times of change such as this happen only periodically throughout our lives, and I realise now that we may as well immerse ourselves in the moment rather than either be swept away by them, or to complain.

See, I used to be one who was averse to radical change in my life--preferring rather to wallow in what I perceived to be stability--until I realised that some of the best moments of my life (if not all) represented radical departures from the status quo of my life at that time. I won't trouble too much of your time to delineate, but it suffices me to say that much of the knowledge and experience I have been blessed to acquire, as well as my growth, and even my baby nephew were the direct result of radical changes in my life. As can be understood, there is no longer any question as to my retrospective sentiment of those changes today.

Let me finish by taking you back to one particular April day near the end of my first year of undergrad, as I contemplated the year that was now behind me. I was spurred by the moment to concoct a poem, the verses of which read as follows:

How did this happen, I can't believe my eyes
Its like every time i check, a year has gone by
The months on my calender, turn page after page
At such a sudden pace...that some would call it rage
So little have i lived, yet so many days of time
Though the memories i hold, are in this head of mine
I watch the clock in horror, there is power to those hands
They tick away at life, and spare not any man
Soon the young are old, and recall not how it passed
If only the good old days, could find a way to last
Is there nothing i can do, but make good of my days?
I look at whats behind... and see not but a haze
If you had an hour left to live, whatever would u do?
You see time is just so precious, i haven't but a clue!

--April 26th, 2001.