Events are more tectonic than we think. Ideas can take years to percolate into something tangible, knowable. Specificities slowly accumulate and after time, a larger shift takes place.

So it's important to consider that what is happening, what we are experiencing right now, might not be the major event we think it is. More likely it's a step; however painful, however pleasurable.

For me everything that happens in the story of a life leads to an event we all share, the ending. It's the only card we're handed absolutely. Real magic can be performed when we assimilate this and move toward that eventuality with humility; our humanity intact.

It could be that the most important event of every-single-life is simply the finale. I want to arrive there clean; better than when I started. I want to have made my amends and feel grateful for it all. I'd like to retire free from judging and free from judgement. And quiet, with nothing left to say, nothing left to hear. I'm practicing how to disappear.

The biggest shift is coming for us all, no curtain calls. I'm stepping more carefully now, trying to filter out the nonsense. And when unsure, I stand very still, waiting for the next move to show itself, confident the course correction will appear.

I feel certain that, in the end, any measure of me will be based solely on how well I constructed a life.

Love, Caro ©