Monday, October 01, 2007

We are forever different

Life is something that you wear like a favourite pair of jeans. So comfortable you might as well not be wearing them at all, and you find yourself wearing them at every opportunity.

In life, we get so accustomed to things that we start taking them for granted. Our families, our careers, our homes. We wear these things and we get used to them. We can't imagine life without them. Until they are gone. Until we lose our jobs, our marriages, our homes...

When we experience a life-changing event, something in us changes too. For ever. We are, forever after, different. Like it or not. We no longer do the same things, behave the same way, say the same things, go to the same places....

The routine that used to drive my life has gone. I have a new life now.

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