Deja Vu

This Easter weekend I found myself in Houston, Texas again. I used to travel to Houston a couple of times a year designing the Baker showrooms and conferring with the sales staff. Now some 20 years later I find my travels have brought me back again.

Yesterday I reconnected with an old friend. A person from those years ago who I had not seen since. Our meeting was extraordinary ... as if time had stood still. It seemed only yesterday that we both had talked, and the air was full of pleasant memories and loving concern. We talked of our adventures and reminisced of times gone by filling in the details that had separated us for all those years. A most enjoyable afternoon.

An amazing revelation occurred to me last night as I lay sorting out the decades of my life and trying to put them in some type of order again. The revelation was just this ... Perhaps time and space are dependant on our conception of them. Maybe we are time travelers and it is in our power to stop and start time.

There have been many times in my life that I have felt the "deja vu" of a moment lived once more, or at least remembered again. The sudden euphoria that is felt is like a tonic for the soul. There is this little voice in my head that says, "how wonderful that this experience can be remembered". How wonderful too that your life has been something that can live again in the realms of joyous remembrance.

Taking our time to live in the present is so very important. To run through life without noticing the joy that surrounds us, or for that matter the pain that we sometimes feel, should not be allowed. We only comes this way once and we should savour every ounce of it and drink it in until we are intoxicated.

But then again maybe we can come this way again if we really try, I thought. What if all we need to do is to believe, really believe, in the magic that exists within us? What if all we had to do was to set our souls free to play in the stars and fly in the wind of forever?

Life is like a shinning star that burns until all it's energy has been spent. It is I think so much better to spend our lives in happiness and love than to surrender it to sadness and fear.

As for me my soul is strong again and my purpose is clear. I will live and love with great joy until I burn as bright as the Sun, and when all of my energies have spent I will live and love again in the universal continuum ... forever.