As Was
"Hello from the 1950’s!"
I felt like saying that when I got a "surprise" phone call from an old friend recently. It’s been so long…many things have been said and done, or unsaid and undone. So much so that when we get blasts from the past, we don’t know how to react anymore. Somehow, we’ve numbed ourselves or taught ourselves to move on, that in a way, there is no turning back when we’ve lost touch and time with people we love. I wish that, in these cases, the overused reply I terribly hated, ""Same old, same old" would apply. That would make me happy. But there are just some things you leave behind, and you can only glance at them from time to time. These are people and events that you can see on your rear view mirror, without ever having to turn your head, and take your attention from what’s meeting you on the road ahead.
Rear view mirrors tell us a lot about where we’re from and what we’ve been through. And true, we adjust them to our own height and posture, so that our hindsight is 20-20. Mirrors then are not only a good way to look at ourselves. They’re also a great way to look at the people we passed by.
Luckily, in the regular course of life, we choose when we want to glance at the rear view mirror. We only really have to do it when we’re backing up, just to make sure we’re not hitting and hurting anybody behind us. And backing up is always just a slight maneuver to move forward.
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