Have you ever been right on the cusp of achieving an ambition, or fulfilling a dream - only to find that, somehow, you still feel so wildly unprepared for it all?
Or, maybe it’s the opposite.
Perhaps it’s only after we achieve a dream, that we eventually start to look back on it all again, and wonder “did I really make the most of things while they were happening”
Either way, I suppose it’s just the nature of innocence and experience.
With love, and with life itself - we make decisions in the present moment, as if we can predict how they are going to turn out in the future.
But in reality, we can never know for sure just how things are going to turn out. And, in fact, we can never even be certain of how our future self is going to feel about this present moment of ours.
Hence, to call this life a learning process is an understatement! And the fact that we ever get things right here is actually more of a surprise than how often we make mistakes.
If we are alive for the first time - it is only natural that we are still finding our way.
And if we have been here a thousand times before, in all manner of incarnations . . . still, this is a whole wide world.
There is still so much that we are yet to know.
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All so new Every moment, it was All so new The way I loved you and the secrets we knew With none above you it was always you Always All so new Two hearts touching, it was All so new Eye to eye, but I could see straight through. There's a part of me that's almost true Almost
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p.s for anyone asking about commissioning an artwork in this style - I am opening my books again very soon. So do get in touch if you’d like to be at the top of the list!
The art work is so wonderful, the use of negative space and the ethereal sounds at sublime. I really enjoyed your words and poetry, too. Thank you for sharing them.
Your lovely and wise posts are always a treat for the soul.