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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Cycle Of Life

Remember way back to when you were young and your parents told you that they were going to take you to town and get ice cream. How excited were you? Didn’t a small thing like going to ice cream with your parents just seem like the most exciting thing in the world? What happened to that magical anticipation we felt when we were children? Where did it go? I wonder to myself why the feeling of mud squishing through my toes as I throw a dirt clod at the trunk of a tree and watch it break into a thousand pieces doesn’t bring the excitement that it did when I was 5 years old. Wasn’t childhood the best? Wasn’t it so exciting to feel all of those new feelings for the first time? Flying on a plane for the first time, fishing for the first time, Disneyland for the first time, going on your first campout. When I think about it I can almost smell the smoke from the campfire. What an overwhelming feeling of bliss it was. When we get older that overwhelming feeling tends to fade. Yes, we do get excited once in a while, but you must admit, it is not the same. Sure, we look forward to attending a basketball game and we enjoy eating out, but do we giggle with uncontrollable joy when our friend arrives at our house for a sleepover? Why is it? Well, I don’t pretend to have the answer. Maybe we get to “cool.” Remember when things your parents did first started to embarrass you? Maybe that’s when the fading begins. Maybe repetition dulls the exhilaration and as time passes the brilliance of novelty is replaced by waning passion. I don’t know. However, there is one thing that I do know for sure; amidst this seemingly cruel pattern of life there is a beam of hope that shines out of life’s merciful cycle. Everything is cyclical. That magical feeling does return. It returns when we become parents. We see things new again, but we see them through our children’s eyes. That fascination we once held so dear again fills our souls. We experience, once again, flying for the first time, fishing for the first time, Disneyland for the first time, camping for the first time. Once again we giggle uncontrollably, but this time it is with our children in our arms. Same emotions, different scenes. For this “cycle of life” I am grateful. I can’t imagine how it would be to be “grown-up” forever.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For a woman, I do think that that excitement is truly relived each time she is pregnant and about to give birth. Bringing life into this world gives me a feeling that is better than any other ever felt. It's better that any christmas as a child and filled with more wonder and awe - after all, it is a true miracle that is taking place. the wonder of what your child will look like and what they will be like is amazing. That is the best thing about having children - feeling that complete miracle take place in your life with such, joy, awe, and excitment!

-Wanda