Proximity

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Proximity is everything. Think about that. It is. How close we are to something has a profound effect on how we perceive it and how it affects our lives now. Need some examples? How close are you to…

-what happened?

-what’s happened since then?

-what you felt should have happened?

-forgiving or forgetting or finishing with?

-that mistake?

-that celebration?

-that realization?

-that lesson?

-that declaration?

-that decision?

-that forgotten decision?

-a life-changing event: a birth, a death, an illness, a move, a poke in the ribs, a punch in the gut?

-that conflict?

-that first?

-that last?

-the beginning, the end?

-starting over?

-that moment in the photograph?

-home?

-your past, your present, your future?

-that window of opportunity?

Regrets? Learn from them; let them go. Or maybe use them as leverage now. Or be stuck in time. This is why some people claim time is a blessing. We need time. We always mourn time’s passage but without its passage we wouldn’t be able to see things more clearly, with a deeper understanding. Time promises there is something new on the horizon. Something fresh. And it will pass too. But we can still get close to what is happening now. Proximity.