The new aphrodesiac

Life is full of hurdles unexpected things happen and it is the way we deal with these things that makes the outcome acceptable. Part of the problem we have is that we assume so much is based on our own view, which is, itself corrupted by our many blind spots as we evaluate everything through a prism of our own making. What is true and what is false depends so much on our reading of events, events which themselves, on the surface seem to be such and such but can be so misrepresented. 

True knowledge is gained from experience and it is life's experiences that emboldens the person to believe they are knowledgeable, until of course a new experience comes along and reveals how inadequate we are, and we start, once again to try to understand who we are and why we arrived at the position we are in. It is common that we take for granted much of what goes on around us and it is only when we no longer have access to something that we miss it. 

Do we miss it because it is important to our lives or do we feel that the change of circumstances has made us realise that nothing in our world is secure, which in its self, makes us insecure.  

If also we allow sentimentality to creep in then we are at risk of becoming ever more focused on what we don't have and forget the positive aspect that a change in circumstance can bring. Unfortunately much of our resilience is dependant on the stage we are in regarding life's journey. With many years ahead and the general assumption that there is plenty of opportunity to rebuild, is different, when one is old and in the last phase of life. 

Re-igniting the desires that one had when younger is virtually impossible, the cause is lost and the spark is gone. This does not mean that one can not undertake an adventure and try to recapture the interest in the world around but youths insatiable yearning to discover new things is very different to the reflective experience when older. 

Of course this power of reflection and the need to "express ones thoughts" in many new and different circumstances could be the new aphrodisiac !!