As I age, I have observed changes in my perception of onset of another year. Earlier, it used to be awe, sense of something cosmically big.. the sense of being positively overwhelmed.
Now, it is mostly gratitude... the sense of being immensely thankful to the Universe for letting us survive and thrive during another round around the Sun.
I understand why people start believing, having faith in God more as they age. It is because we realize that none of this is in our control... nothing. The fact that we are what we are, doing the things we are doing, living the lives we are living.. all of this happened despite of what we did... not because. In the grand scale of design, we are nothing, in consequential. (IMHO being inconsequential is a pretty happy way to live.. but that is another conversation.)
Naturally, one would attribute such good fortune to God and His will. Because otherwise, here will be a scary place and now will be a scary time to live.
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