The true gift of life
Jon Erii 2022
The hours alone with my thoughts, philosophizing, observing the landscape along or below, traveling, pondering life, the music playing on the radio, news interjected into a new idea popping up while the moon smiles at the water glimmering in the night, to the right, somewhere around Galpe at over hundred miles per hour. Galpe, who the hell knows where Galpe is? I do as people living close by or even some in the same country. I have plenty of Galpe in my life. Beautiful spots I love to call my own, part of my being, under my skin as the song goes, and yet just a place along the way that brings up warm feelings of a life well-lived. New amazing ideas develops while underway, never to progress beyond a fleeting concept, but they could have been - if not for the reckless pace of life and the clash of thoughts and ideas competing to become the life-altering hypothesis enlightening the perception of being and being blessed to know many good people and pleasant moments, discarding the memories of the bad.
Thinking of the woman I love and those women I have loved before, since my early days, not even ten, playing music on my uncle’s gramophone as they danced into the night, as I would, later in life, over and over and over again, wanting it to last forever. My love dances with me through our journey, the music magically moves us, fortunate creatures, sweating in ecstasy or passion or both, with few words, yet everything is said and meant at every turn on the wooden floor, delighted to sustain the essence of life while we sway through the air and time. That first love, it hurt, still pain is part of it all, a must we must forget, lessons we need to learn. Adversity cannot alter who we genuinely are, or we become something we should overcome instead of being truly happy. If we listen to our hearts and minds, the lessons learned will guide us in navigating this wonderful thing called life and love and dancing and living. Recognizing our good fortune, even in bad times. That is the true gift of life.