To new beginnings. That’s what we say at the dusk of one chapter and the dawn of another. But what do we say when we never realize where one chapter ends and another begins? What do we tell ourselves when we look back and cannot recognize where and when we exited one stage and walked into another? How are we supposed to act when everything is new, but we are old?

To new beginnings. We say it in hope, in belief, sometimes, as a dare. But is that sentence even complete? And what are we supposed to do when we realize that the present and the future are no different from the past? What exactly can we do to ensure new beginnings are indeed new beginnings? 

Whether we want to or not, we will always find ourselves at new beginnings. Some of us sadly only recognize them when we are already at the end. That is why I have chosen to savor every moment. I am done missing out on the beauties, the splendor, the little wonders, and the little miracles. 

Whether we recognize them or not, enjoy them or not, thrive in them or not, moments will pass. The intrinsic nature of them is that they are fleeting. And we, as flesh and bones, from dust and to dust, hard as we may try, are just as fleeting as the moments and time. 

Which is the more reason to stay in the moment, to savor them, and to ensure that when they eventually leave, we are left with memories that etch smiles on our faces. Smiles that money cannot buy, grief cannot steal, and nature will have to respect because we earned every inch of them. 

“…Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Or let us read, speak, listen, hang out, love, fight, argue, seek, find, lose, gain, travel, plant, harvest, save, spend, learn, teach, sing, laugh, cry, toast, cheer, make friends, lose them, find them, and lose them again, and most importantly, find Christ, and never lose Him,  so when indeed tomorrow we die, we die empty, yet full. 

Here is to new beginnings, may they be worth it, may they be what we wanted them to be, may they be with the people we want, and may they bring all we dared and dreamed they would. 

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