Lost or Found?
The Grasshopper asked a thought provoking question the other day: “Are you looking for what you’ve lost OR what you haven’t found yet?”
Normally I don’t know what triggers these messages from out of the blue, but this time I think I do.
I saw a Facebook posting the other day inviting me to listen to a new track from the forthcoming Diana Krall Album called, GLAD RAG DOLL. The song was an old, country flavored, slow waltz entitled, WIDE RIVER TO CROSS.
The song touched me on the first play, and then I played it again and again and these lyrics stuck in my head:
I’m only half way home
I gotta journey on
Where I’ll find
The things I have lost
We’ve all lost something or someone, and sometimes our journey is to find the things we have lost. There is another journey that, perhaps, we haven’t considered – Looking for what we haven’t found yet.
For me, there is a different feeling attached to each. Lost is a frantic feeling, and the search for what I haven’t found feels like hunger. “Lost” has the scary feeling of never being found, and “Found” is a knowing that something is there. I can smell it, but I just haven’t found it yet – like an aromatic bakery.
I think it’s useful to determine which of these you are looking for – Lost or Found.
If you are lost in lost, the chances of discovering what you haven’t yet found are greatly diminished. The search for found gets put on hold while you hold on to the frightening feelings of lost.
I can’t tell you what direction to head in – only this: Finding your way has the fresh smell of a brand new day.
If you pursue found, you’re less likely to get lost.
All the best,
John
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