The twist and fate of life never ceases to amaze, is it coincidence or is it the stars aligned in the sky, we will never know; but one thing I know for sure, we create our journey here and it is for us. It is with that I decided to journey to a far away land in a far away language with people who I relate to very well. I do not know many things in life, and the older I get the less I know, in a certain respect it is a well known fact that we have small brains and the universe is very large, so trying to understand is always a challenge that we face from day to day. Fate is not part of our understanding, but it is part of our observation.
Birthdays in life are a strange coincidence, they happen whether we want them to happen or not. We were born on a day and so that day arrives once a year. The celebration varies from time to time, some years we have a big party, some years we are solitude, some years we go for a walk, other years we are with family, but each one is different, and each one presents to us a reflection we may prefer not to look at, but in any case the day comes and goes.
I am living in South America for many reasons, most of those reasons are not known to my conscious mind, I am just here. I do know one of the reasons I believe I am here and that is to celebrate a mark in my life. The mark of turning fifty years. For quite a while I have been using the 50th birthday as a mark in my mind, in a subtle way to get to it. To arrive in that time in my life, not only alive but fulfilled with a feeling of knowing. Of knowing that, what I am doing here on Planet Earth is learning, living, loving, and finally leaving.
100 days
my birthday fell on the 100th day
in argentina
a twist of luck, suerte
50 years and counting
to be in a place
in a time
when as per usual
the planet is fine
the people
always in disarray
more or less, mas o menos
it has always been this way
and always will be this way
it is part of being a human
and observing the state
of the world at a scale we see
not at a quantum scale
not at a grande scale
but our scale
each one to her own
to love the opportunity
to live life to its fullest
each and every day
as we know best
