Because life is not easy y quisieramos ser...

"En el tiempo real, en la historia, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas opta por una y pierde las otras; no así en el ambiguo tiempo del arte, que se parece al de la esperanza y al del olvido." -  J.L. Borges

Time is such an abstract concept, yet it governs our daily life and how we choose to live it. We make decisions based on how much time will be needed and left to accomplish tasks; we use time to determine when we should make and/or break commitments, spend time with someone, spend time with something. Spend, waste, enjoy…etc.

Time is in our daily walk, talk, hearts and mind. And often overwhelms our minds, bodies and hearts. Time has the power to create and destroy and in the midst of it all, it does not allow us time to reflect. Things pass us by and it feels like yesterday.  

We wish, We wish, We wish and we continue wishing things could be different or we wish to go back and do things differently because perhaps today would be different. We spend time thinking or maybe waste time thinking.

Every time a decision is made, we gain something and/or lose something else. Sometimes we are right, sometimes we are wrong. Sometimes we don't know what we’ve lost until time passes us by. Other times we know. Deep down inside, we all possess intuition, our gut feeling, our conscious and/or whatever keeps us going; we decide to be either presence or desire.

And just like time-alongside time, there is also hope and oblivion.

Be steadfast in your hope. It should be as constant as change. It is our light and without it, we are left in the dark— oblivion.

Oblivion too, occurs with time. Oblivion is forgetting and/or destroying or being destroyed. Again, we make that decision. Oblivion is not as good as hope, for with hope we move past the darkness, accept its realities and although we may wager sadness and contentment, we learn to become better human beings.

Getting lost is easy. And there are things in life that hurt so bad. Grief transforms but, We decide its purpose. 

Because life is not easy y quisieramos ser,

"Del amor el que no sufre (Of the love that does not suffer)

De la espera lo que resta, (Of the wait what is left)

Del boron la cuenta nueva" (Of the obliteration, the new account)

Sometimes all we can do is one day at a time. And for that, we should be grateful. For every day is an opportunity to get something right this time around.  

“Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God” – Psalm 90:1

(This is my hope)