Life Goes On

Oh Yeah,

Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

~ J. C. Melloncamp, Storyteller

Sometimes, the very best we can hope for is a pause. Life does go on, regardless of who we are, who it is that have joined us on our journey, how many family members visit our bedside, or how many of our friends share a crying emoji when word gets out that our business has been torched. Yes, even when the thrill is gone, life goes on.

Life does go on, doesn’t it? Even when all we need is a pause, maybe to catch our breath, to let out the dog patiently waiting by the door, or make the microwave oven stop beeping. One would think that there has to be a way to get the gears to stop turning, for time to stop ticking, and for chaos to yield to order. Unless, you know of a breaker to throw or knob to turn, to stop the earth from spinning on its axis and the planets to stop orbiting the sun, there isn’t. The very best we can hope for is a pause, a few brief seconds, or minutes, so that we can be free of what causes our pain, our angst, and our sorrow. What good can come out of a pause?

What would happen if we could string together a few of those pauses? Could they could become moments, and string moments into mindsets, and mindsets into habits and habits into a renewed purpose, and a new purpose into hope? Not just any hope, but a…