Life is full of uncertainties, but we remain hopeful. We expected that things would be this way or that way but were disappointed to see them go otherwise. A child growing up is eager to become an adult, hoping that adulthood could solve one issue or the other they experience as a child, or to just give them an entirely different feeling.
Perhaps it does. But when we begin to leave out each day of that adulthood and see that nothing gets new, but a continuous recycling, life could get boring and tiring. When it's a continuous cycle without a change, it gets overwhelming and people tend to become exhausted in it; in the whole process of living even.
There are days when the normal cycle of living gets exhausting and tiring. I've always admired doing new things or doing things in a new way. Something away from the normal, regular way. Not something exquisite, but just a change of the normal order would be nice. It doesn't usually go like that in life, or most of the time.
I think with growth and age, we get exposed to new things of all sorts. While the initial feeling is that of excitement and expectation for something new and different, it dies over time. It's a fair expectation when you're stepping into a new thing and you expect a different kind of feeling attached to it. Maybe it's just the way with things.
My mind draws to when as a kid especially, I desired something and then I finally got it. The feeling was overwhelmingly good, but with time as I used that gift, toy or whatever, it becomes just another old normal thing and the excitement, the vibe, the feeling is no longer there.
That example might be a far one. Today, the phones we use might have been one of our big desires, and for the first few months we use them, it's a total joy. Later on, when it got to a year, more than a year, two years, it doesn't give that joy and good feeling again. I think this is just the thing with life. Things will always feel new and awesome until they are not.
How about clocking a new age? Especially clocking one of those delicate years. It could feel like something that's never coming forth until it does and then we later discover it's just another time that passes by and away. The celebration is there, the good feeling is there, but it doesn't endure forever, at some point it becomes normal.
Also, considering situations like getting admission and all of those aspirations especially of a young mind. I envisioned much concerning going to a higher institution until I went. Maybe the movies I watched and other factors elevated the expected feeling. It felt good at the beginning, till it got tiring and perhaps, boring.
However, one of the things that I consider will not fail to feel new is walking with purpose. In our journey towards purpose or in purpose, our genuine efforts open us up to new things and lessons. The lessons could not feel totally new, but they expose us to new realities that we can't deny. And purpose is the relevance we chase in life, so it won't really feel old as we journey in it.
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