Season of life

It's been awhile since I had a day of catching up on me. I'm realizing how hard it is to be still and reflect on the past few months of life. Our society keeps us moving... interacting.. and gives us endless opportunities that I find myself wanting to take part in. But it seems like when we do have a chance to stop.. breathe.. think... is when all that hard stuff comes up- the stuff we've been neglecting because it's just easier to go on living our busy lives sometimes.
After trying to process through the past few months of my life, I am quickly reminded how life is actually not about me at all. I am energized by the lives of the people I get to live life with. Recently, I've gotten to share great celebrations with these people like passing an exam, having a birthday, getting a new job, getting married, having an anniversary, living in the same house for a year, etc. All these events have given me great joy because it gives us an excuse to get together, catch up, share stories, be real. It also gives us reasons to feel blessed and loved and happy. I am realizing the importance of having people in my life to share these moments with. Life should be about celebrating all these things.. as little or big as they may seem.
And even though I tend to be an internal processor, I am thankful for people in my life to process through things with. This week, I was reminded of a quote by one of my roommates, that I really enjoy. The quote was brought up after discussing together many questions we have in life. Instead of being bogged down by unanswered questions, instead of struggling with the why's and how's of life, I think it's important to love the questions.. and live out those questions together.. with people who know you and love you well. So here it is:
"I would like to beg you, as well as I can, to have patience with
everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions
themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very
foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be
given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the
point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then,
some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing
it, live your way into the answers."  ---Rainer Maria Rilke



So in this season of life that I'm in.. with the colors starting to change, and the weather starting to cool down, I hope that we can live the questions now with those we're living life with... and before we know it, another season will change, and our answers will gradually show up without us even noticing.

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