Timeline musing

At most points in our life, tomorrow is much like yesterday. The flavors and contours might vary, but aside from extraordinary, unexpected change, there’s a similarity.

Our window on the timeline is somewhat steady.

But the further we extend our gaze — six months ahead, six months behind … ten years ahead, ten years behind — the themes change. Over longer periods of time, the story arc changes.

We can’t stop the changes from happening; that’s not the point.

But we can decide whether we’re floating or sailing, watching or acting, consuming or contributing.

Even before one long chapter ends and another begins, we remain authors with pen in hand.