wondering

[chelidon]

If you would, think for a moment about the long, long chain of choices, circumstances, coincidences and events which led you to be who you are, where you are, doing what you are doing, with those you are with, right here and right now. Try to fathom, even a little, just how impossibly, incredibly unbelievably unlikely is that precise, long, unbroken chain by which you got here, each branching timelime, each decision built upon all the ones before. If you think back to your ancestors, those who gave you life, and their ancestors before them, and add together all of the choices and events that shaped their lives, that led you to yours, you add even deeper, and more unfathomable layers of the improbable. Yet here you are, exactly, precisely as you are. In each moment, the impossible unfolds.

This is wonder. Wonder speaks to each of us in a different voice, and to each of us in different ways, at different times, if we can just open, quiet the inner voices, and listen. With what voice does wonder speak to you today? What message does wonder hold for you right here, and right now? Where is the wonder in your life?

Comments

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

*smile*

I do this often, but thanks for reminding me to do it today.

[swansister.livejournal.com]

Excellant questions, indeed where has wonder gone in my life? Instead I find myself very cynical with the world and people.

Swan

[lylythe-strega.livejournal.com]

Dammit, Chel...I'm gonna get too caught up in this, and then I'll be late getting out of here and getting home... ;>

I feel myself so grateful for where I am that I'm teeterng on the edge of not daring to even try grasping the reality of it - if that makes any sense. It was a long road that got me here...alternately joyous and painful, difficult and easy. I've had love, and I've lost love, and I've had love again. I know what true pain is.

What message does wonder hold for me - right now?

"Damn it, girl - get off the drekking computer, pick up your husband, go home and enjoy your evening, the rest of your life, and where it takes you."

:>

[lylythe-strega.livejournal.com]

...and I did. So there... :P

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

:> Sounds like a wonder-ful message to me.