times past, times to arrive

 Early mornings and a cup of coffee.... Well, let's see how this goes.

Every morning people wake up. We also go to sleep. This is one of the many thing we have in common as humans, we go to sleep, and we wake up.

We all have bed head, all grouchy, all struggle with those early morning thoughts.

Male, inbetween, female, straight, bi, gay, lesbian, inbetween or outside, winner, loser, democrat, republican, inbetween,  we all go through it.

From there, those similarities start to dissapate, become more granualar. 

Some are single,  divorced, or separated.

Some are hooking up, dating, or are in short, medium, or long term commitment relationships. 

Some are in open or closed relationships or marriages. 

Some cheat or have never cheated.

Some have kids (biological step, half, quarter, or adopted), others don't.

Some have jobs, looking for work (and are succesful or struggling) 

Some are social butterflies or isolated caterpillars.

"So what?" You're asking right now, "What's the part I can randomly nitpick about?" 

I honestly don't know. Maybe to point out the commonalities that we as Americans, (Native, born into, naturalized, grandfathered), and as humans have. Maybe the best posts are the ones that make you think, even if you don't want to random have deep philosophica seld-debates this early on in the morning. 

Maybe the point is just to shake the rust off of those gears of motion, and find some deeper, medium, or shallow point of thought and go from there. 

Cruelty is easy. 

Ignorance is bliss.

The guilty are innocent.

Kindness is hard.

Knowledge is a burden we all carry.

The innocence of childhood is stolen away by the introducing of new knowledge and the passing of time.

We are animals of terrifying potential, numbed by the experience of what we think to be the mundane, the everyday, seeking deeper and more chaotic fields by which to expand our personal libraries and find that spark of excitement. 

Yet... we seek the simple andm undane, because we've already experienced those adventures in our youth, and through choice (our own or through the decisions of others (singlular or ourselves included) we've chosen the calmer path. 

the younger we are the more we wish to grow up. the older we get, the more we crave those times of our youth again, only to be reminded by reality, that the moment we crave from that most cherished personal you, requires the undoing of the very progress we have no control over. And to do so, to go back, with the knowledge we have, would not only change our present, (individually or collectively), but irrevolcably change who we are as people (individually or collectively).

We can no more change the past than we can blink hoping for a different dream to replace our current reality. But we strive for those moments, don't we? We go back to childhood habits, to place of calm, but with the newest tools at our disposal, and build towards a better future.

there is nothing wrong with nostalgia, no wrong doing in reliving the memories once thought out of reach. To experience growth, to shed the trappings of childhood as we grow into our current selves... that's simply just life in general.

We go to sleep as toddlers, our imaginations so very active that we see the creatures in the shadows. We don't know them, or rather, didn't. But as time and tide progress, they become closer to us than our family. Those creatures we saw wriggling in the dark of open closets, underneath our beds, in the corners are our secrets, thoughts and dreams. Our futures yet to be explored, our potential for the infinite... 

So we go to sleep as children, and over time, we grow into ourselves.and where once we saw wriggling shapes indefinable, we now see empty spaces, corners, and storage. there isn't anything negative to be taken away from this, because in those now definable empty spaces, we now see the possible, the potential, the doorways to the possible applications of said spaces. 

We must go forward, one step at a time, with the three cornerstones of our lives, childhood imagination, learned information, nostalgia, and the theoretical and actualized inventions of our own various designs. Though the words may have been repeated many times in different forms, no one will ever reap the wisdom you gain from your own variation of those words. 

How we create those possibilities, and how they benefit both ourself and others? That's for that particular moment in time to reveal.