History vs Present Re: Future

It is said that "If you don't know where you are coming from, you will never know where you are going." This may be so to some extent, but it misses out an a critical axis in the whole getting to the future and reaching goals effort: the present.

Can one move swiftly from knowings one's past straight into the future? Unless you have access to some magical time machine, the answer is an obvious "No."

I think I have a new theory about the Present"
"If you don't accept where you are now and in each present continuous moment, you will never get anywhere."

Black is the colour of my true love's hair

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After a weekend of R&R (sans the romance), I have come home with a burgeoning ache for just that.

Not hot passionate sex, but lovemaking of the kind that you can only share with a true love.

I vividly remember the emotion, the tremendous sense of satiety, peace, fear, passion, and intense desire all wrapped up into one continuous emotion. I could dream then... about a future... about the plural concepts of us and we together. About a small and intimate country wedding, children running wild, dogs, huge vegetable gardens and growing old together on rocking chairs on a lovely countryside verandah. I saw the vision clearly- the fights, the misgivings, the rifts and the bridges that would always help us find our way back to each other- our love and our children.

These moments scare me.

But they shouldn't -at least I know my childish enthusiasm is still alive and I am still open to dreaming my most intimate dreams. Love is the dream of the young and foolish and the old and lonely- the most siginificant contribution to a meaningful existence.

Yet my love is out there... hanging bright like a star in the night...just waiting to lead me home.

I'm ready when you are.


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