Vergangenheit ist Geschicte, Zukunft ist Geheimnis und Jeder Augenblick ein Geschenk.

a reflection by Deborah Gonzales

Grade X-Earth 

Before we abruptly close our eyes goodnight everything that we’ve done has ended and won’t ever be copied, deleted nor returned back. I’ve just realized one thing, that in continuously living, one has to terminate but no need to worry for another beginning is waiting. Each day we wake up, each day we do and try accomplishing tasks, each hour we tend to spend in a useless act, each minute we abide by rules around, each second we learn and each millisecond our heart pound, another story will take place. As a lay man said,  “another chapter of the tale is ‘bout to occur”.

 After the past,  I believe that present is really meant to happen, by the name it means “gift”, at this moment I may think a bit literally. Happiness, sadness, disappointment, heart breaks,  we may feel some of these now, either negative or positive, as present arrives what it give is the infinite experience that can only happen once. Our experience is the core of our attitude, and as we step closer to a new event there are only two things that we can encounter, it is each of two, to be thankful of the great or to be sorry and at the same time learn from the fault. 

Pondering randomly, a day or two won’t pass without worrying about what will go down, somehow we people are afraid of reckoning so what we do is to expect and expect about  things that are too far, too good to be true. The future is indeed secretive yet what holds it are our acts of today. We may be blinded by how numinous is our destiny but I say it’s exciting to reach for it as time laps. Maybe what we need to focus on is our present, not only because it is the holder of the unborn, but also since we can never turn our back from it and go once more in the past. Based on a deep experience what is over shouldn’t be held, we must learn how to let go and hug what’s in front, for the past has ended and the current will be even more rip-roaring. Let’s just not deny that once we also learned from our history. 

Finally, I just want to share a quote from a great author, writer and outdoor enthusiast Louise Smith; she stated that, “you can’t reach for the future when your hands are full of yesterday’s junk”.