Karen’s Korner
In my search for the “true” meaning of life, I realized that the “search” was the true “meaning” of life. Every experience, every tragedy, every individual that I have met along the way has taught me something about life and what it means to live and exist from one minute to the next. There are those moments that are so fleeting – I merely touch them as they fly by on their way to others; moments I want to keep and yet, knowing full well that I must continue and reach forward into time so that I will not miss other moments. There are those memories I wish not to pull from the recesses of my mind because they are too painful to remember. There are times that seem to stand still as I struggle through them, choosing to find the solutions on my own and realizing that I do not have the answers to the questions I am trying so diligently to answer. Yet, I am fully aware of the One who does.
At times, life is not what I thought it was going to be, and at other times, it is more than I could ever imagine it to be. Confusing? Possibly! But I would rather say intriguing; from the standpoint that I never know what is going to happen from one moment to the next. Intriguing, because of so many different personalities and dispositions that I meet daily, acquaintances that I meet only once, but would choose to live with for a lifetime if only I had gotten to know them – those people I call “friend,” who love and sustain me in spite of myself, and the significant few, who are truly “friends.” Friendships are valuable and are a necessary part of life.
I guess when all is said and done, life cannot really be defined as such. It was a course set out by my Creator even before my birth. It is my interaction with others at work, in play, at worship, and in rest. It is singing and dancing and laughing in one magic moment and crying in the pangs of humanity in the next. It is not fair – at times it is evil, and it is always in need of grace and acceptance. It is, and it is not; but, it does not last forever.
A time will come for me to leave and where I end up is determined to a greater extent as to how I lived and Who I lived for! Life…I guess, as they say, life truly is “what you make it.”
Come make some friends and renew old friendships with new memories at the Webster Parish Council on Aging. We are located at 1482 Shepard Street.
Hope to see you soon.