7 September 2014

Let’s be grateful for the "us" soon to be gone and supportive of the "us" who is becoming. Let’s make our children our legacy for a better future, while being grateful for the ones who came before us. To the first we ow our future, to the latter, who we are and what we have.

During the last week I had two major events in my life. The passing of one of my closest friends and the birth of three sons (we were expecting triplets).

I've been experiencing the sorrow for the loss and joy for the arrival of three new little beings into my life.

Having these two happenings between days of each other has helped me to see the nature of life’s cycles. The cycles of birth and death, the cycles of new beginnings and endings.

I made some research and I found that every year on this earth there are 131.4 million babies born and there are 55.3 million people that die.

When I look at these statistics I see that one day I’m going to be one of those who will be dying as there will be others that will be coming. This is a unique characteristic of the world we live in. We live in an Universe that has unique forces that create and destroy.

There are new stars being born into the Universe while there are others dying. Every night a day is gone and another one begins. Stages in life come as others pass.

Some years ago some of us were teenagers, children and babies. We are not anymore. A few moments ago you started reading this article, that moment is gone and the present one is here.

But is there something always constant and present? Some people say that our soul is. Some people say that there is something behind it all that never changes, that is always.

From a human experiential perspective we are always transforming, this implies destruction and construction. No matter if we are joyful or sad, circumstances and seasons’s will pass.

I don’t know about you, but I get a deep feeling of gratitude and appreciation for every moment, for every person, for every experience, when I become aware that one day I will be no more on this earth.

This makes me value every interaction. Who knows wether the last word we utter will be the last one that person will hear from us, or the last one we may express. From this perspective I become a lot more mindful of how I speak and even more, how I am, how I feel.

What if the last emotion I felt was anger? What if the last interaction I had with a human being was being upset with them? If every moment could be my last, how do I want to live it?

I do believe that there is value in planning a possible future and working to create it, but lets not forget the present moment.

What are new beginnings today, tomorrow will be moments of the past. One day, if my chidden live to be old, they will remember me as someone no longer in body with them.

I feel excited for every new creation and sad for the passing of every moment, of every person, of every stage. I see these emotions not as conflicting but as complimentary for living a deep and full life.

I find aw-some and inspiring to see our Universe in constant motion, in constant transformation, like us.

Even when we know that all is transient, we often cling to a person we love or to a circumstance not wanting them to go. In doing so, we often forget the witness within that is experiencing it all.

The only constant in our lives is us. We know it because we are aware of ourselves living and experiencing. People pass, circumstances change, but we are always present. We may change our beliefs, our bodies could have different shapes, our bank accounts may decrease or increase, but we are always there.

Isn’t this amazing! Isn’t it amazing that we can be aware of ourselves, of our experience? Isn’t it amazing to see how the Universe works? Maybe there are other Universes that don’t have the same qualities, forces or laws as ours. I wonder what they would be like!

Every experience changes us as we change the world around us. We are aboard a huge spaceship called earth cycling through the solar system and galaxy which is cycling through other clusters of galaxies. All of this, while we live what we live, while we cry what we cry and while we enjoy what we enjoy.

One day we may look back (if there is an afterlife) and we may see our human experience as beautiful, as an opportunity to build ourselves, to experience a world. We may see our human life as an opportunity to feel, to love, to discover and to create.

One day we may see how confused and lost we were from the eyes of a more learned "us". Till then, we are here. Let’s hope that we may live forever living every moment as if it was our last. Lets appreciate what is leaving, giving space for the new to arise.

Let’s be grateful for the "us" soon to be gone and supportive of the "us" who is becoming. Let’s make our children our legacy for a better future while being grateful for the ones who came before us. To the first we ow our future and to the latter who we are and what we have.

In peace I hope my friend is and in joy I hope my children will live.

With love

@ Edgar Boone

The Cycle Of Life