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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

It was all so simple then...



                As I’ve wrapped up my classes for this semester and things are starting to settle a bit, I finally have a few moments to be one with my thoughts.   Hmmmm…the white noise is driving me bonkers.  I think life is easier when the noise is so loud that you are unable to hear what’s missing.  Right now, I’m sitting here reflecting on all that is missing, all that I’m not doing, …and all that I need to do.  A friend just recently posted a high school picture on FaceBook.  We were all 20 years younger, 20 lbs thinner…and 20 years less experienced.  This picture took me a back to a time where life wasn’t as complicated and there were no real decisions to be made ---except what to do on the weekends, whether to eat dinner at home or pick up fast food, who to go to the prom with, and what college to attend.  If only the decisions were that simple now.  In the words of Lauryn Hill, “it was all so simple then…!”  Who knew?  When did the inexperience and naivety of my youth escape me?  When did I become saddled with decisions, bills, and responsibility? 
                So, in the midst of my white noise…I sit and I wonder whether I can recapture just a few moments of my youth.  I know there’s no turning back the hands of time.  Therefore, as I sit here in the middle of the white noise, I’m reflecting on the happy moments of the past.  Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to revel in the past for too long.  I know that the future has good things to offer.  I just wish that I was able to appreciate the beauty of the simplicity of the past (at that time).  I never understood why my parents always said, “Enjoy it while you’re young…,” but now I have a complete understanding.  With that said, as I move through my present and into my future, I will be sure to appreciate all that joys, the sadness, the good times and the bad.  Because what is simple today, may not be as simple tomorrow. 
This is the She-Spot…in total reflection mode!
Love, Peace, and Empowerment!

It was all so simple then…