A Nagging Thought

Goal .. both/and ... reality, hmmmm

There was a time where the reading was quick and shallow and the action was loud and opinionated. I’ve now hit a point in my life where certain truisms seem to trample on one another.

What seems like a lifetime ago is really only about 15 years .. .I was gobsmacked by the reality of “both/and” … life wasn’t a series of binary truths but more of a continuum of thoughts. A few universals still do seem reasonable but they tend to be scarce.

But here’s one that is really dragging on me considering the times in which we find ourself. For those like me who think we’ve taken a hard turn for the worse, there is some comfort in the notion that history is circular and cyclical rather than linear. But (quite selfishly….), I am struggling to reconcile that observation with the very real truth that our life here is short.