Life goes on

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. (Robert Frost)

I am in a very reflective mood nowadays. I listen to old music and Barbra Streisand's voice echoes what is inside me "no matter how we try some good things never last". Yeah, why can't they last?

Two friends of mine end their emails with this quote: One of the reasons why people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only things that don’t change when everything else does …

In the Transfiguration narrative, the three apostles witnessed something extraordinary and they wanted it to stay forever. "Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah", said Peter, James and John. If these three people had expressed it so, I guess it's normal to feel this way.

But change is the most constant thing in life. We are never the same person. Isn't there a saying that goes: you don't cross the same river twice. You change, the river changes.

Each day, each person, each experience is a gift. They are not to be hoarded. They are to be enjoyed, to be received as a gift, then to be let go. Yet, something of it remains with us: in our thoughts, our hearts, in the way we speak, in our gaze, in the way we see, in the gesture of our hands, in our gait. We are never the same person. Life goes on.