Since ancient times, we've been
clinging on to things. Things of value; jewelery, furnisher,
paintings, vases, cars, knick knacks galore. The more things, the
more we authenticate our lives. The pharaohs believed in this so
much so that they built incredulous dwellings to house all their
belongings to take with them in their afterlife.
They believed that things defined them
and they needed those things so much that they had to take everything
with them. Wow! That's a lot of baggage! Yet, who are we, what
have we accomplished, and how will anyone know if we don't have
things to accredit our existence.
And so, we live our lives building
pyramids of our own and in there we stuff every single thing we can
to authenticate our lives. We become so dependent on what we've
accumulated that we cannot move forward for fear that everything in
our pyramid will be lost and then what will we do without our things.
Instead we should be building a pyramid
for our soul because that is the only thing we take with us whenever
and wherever we go. A house is just that, a building with walls and
a roof to shelter us from the outside world not to house our soul.
And, yes, we turn them into homes, but it is the love and the
memories that we cherish, not the floors or ceiling. The things we
collect are not important but the memories they bring is, and those
memories are stored in the pyramid of our souls and no where else.
Life is an incredible journey. It has
highs and it has lows. There is so much to see and so much to do and
it is our human instincts that tell us we must hold on to it all.
Everything we gather and flaunt must be stored, kept, and we must
cling to it because it identifies us and justifies our existence. In
a way, it does, it is not the material that is of value but what we
cherish in our hearts and store in our souls.
The only thing we need in this life
time and all others, is us. We need very little things to travel
anywhere; as a matter of fact, the lighter we travel, the farther
we'll go. We live many lives and make many decisions that are so
difficult because they mean that we may have to let go of all those
things that we think define us when in fact it is just our heart that
is the foundation of our pyramids. Ah, and those memories, those
amazing beautiful memories that is what we take anywhere we go.
Copyright ©Lucy Tamajon 2014
Copyright ©Lucy Tamajon 2014
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