New Chapter

Have you ever read a really good book, and your mind and soul just sung while you read it.  And, you just KNEW that the book was going to end, so you kinda drug out the last chapters.  Then, it ended, and you felt both a sense of satisfaction and the feeling that reading something else would cheapen it.  What could  be as good as that book, you think.

However, time goes on, and eventually, you feel like giving another book a shot.  And, whether it be the very next book or several books later, you begin to get addicted to ANOTHER book that held a completely different theme.  And, it is interesting to you, and you at first think that you are being disloyal to the first book... even if it is the same author.  You might expect the next book by the author to be the same as the first book.  But, you find... hey, this is very intersting and I want to grow by reading it and enjoying it.

Of course, you know this analogy is meant to reflect more than just books.  It can be another relationship, or it can be more just a relationship with yourself.  Or, it can have nothing to do with relationships at all.  It can be with new people and environment, or it can be simply that you are new.  Whatever it happens to be for you, this is the theme and message I want to convey by this analogy.

New is not bad.  Change is not on it's face bad.  Walking into unfamiliar and maybe even challenging environments are not bad.  It is just new.  Even in the books that you read, you must... turn the page, read the next chapter.  And, you read it and say... wait... I was still processing the last chapter and enjoying it.  But, then, you realize the new chapter brings a whole new depth to the story you THOUGHT you wree reading and leading you to the story you may not even have been expecting.

In my own life, I will only say that I know enough to know I don't know enough to predict my future.  But, I know enough to know... I am ready for a new story.

So, enjoy the stories of the past, but today is a new day.  Turn the page.  Look for what new adventures may await you, and while you SHOULD guide your story with observation and intention know that you cannot know it all.. and how boring would life be if you could.  And, step forward into the next chapter of your ever evolving life.