Another milestone passes

It has been over two years since leaving Australia in the search for new horizons and the time is just passing without any real awareness of how quickly everything is going from being plans to becoming memories.  As we go along day by day enjoying each challenge that a new sunrise brings, things start to accumulate in my mind in regards to how much we have seen and done in such a short time.  This reminds me of a great piece of insightful writing by a fellow called Leunig

 In my life I had accumulated many things in my head……too many things.   

Memories, tunes, fears, facts, visions, love, etc. etc….as many as possible.   

In a fertile mind, such things will interbreed.  Mongrel visions ar e born……hybrid memories….inbred…idiot love…..it gets very confusing. 

I decided it was time for a good clean up, so I emptied it all out of my head and pushed it up in a big heap to sort it all out.   

There it was…..everything that was me, all in a big jumbled heap.  I walked around it.  What a mess!   

Then suddenly I saw it in silhouette and realised what it was….It was a heap….a simple heap!  You don’t sort it out….you climb it….You climb it because it’s there…..

Excitedly I clambered to the summit and raised a flag.  I was now looking beyond everything that I knew.   

The view was simply MAGNIFICENT!

This piece of writing was originally published as part of one of his many illustrated books, but still carries the simple message when just reading the text.  To me it means that is we can get past everything we think and feel about our lives and ourselves, no matter how good or bad we think it all is - then what we will see is a clear future of opportunity and splendour.  I like that.