Life Dancer

The Authentic Eclectic

How can we travel life’s journey?

We move from birth through life. As soon as children learn to walk, they abandon walking. Instead they run and dance through life with enthusiasm and joy. They hop and skip, jump and climb and roll down hills.

For children, everything is new. Every day is a new adventure.

Few adults that I’ve met seem to feel that childish enthusiasm and joy. There was a time when your young self’s outlook on life changed from that of a child’s world of joy and light to something different? Perhaps it was a gradual process that happened without you realizing it. Perhaps it was dramatic, a sudden event or shock of some kind.

Do you remember the day it happened, the moment everything changed?

For me it was sudden, but there was no big event or shock. I just woke up one morning and everything was different. It was as if I had been living in the sunshine and suddenly the sun was gone, as if a world in color was suddenly rendered in shades of grey.

Perhaps psychologists have deeper understanding of this phenomenon. Perhaps it is common or rare. Perhaps it’s just a normal part of pre-adolescence, which would certainly explain a lot.

I don’t know. I assumed it was normal, got up and continued life as usual. I was brought up with the attitude that ‘stuff happens’. Deal and move on. So that’s what I did.

Gradually the light and color came back, different, richer, more nuanced. This was the subtle, textured adult world. As we all know, the transition is wonderful, exciting and difficult.

The rhythms of life evolve. With time and circumstance our journey changes.

No longer children, but adults now, how do we continue life’s journey? Chances are we no longer hop, skip, jump or roll down hills. Instead we walk, march, plod, and maybe, sometimes, dance.

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