New additions that become lasting additions to your life

It's been a while since I wrote a personal note. So here it is --

Something's been on my mind lately and I think I need to write about it in order to make sense of it. All my life I've always had this habit of writing even when I have no flipping idea what it is I'm going to say, but to just let it flow as my hands move across the page, or in this case, across the keys of my laptop :p

Lately, I've been trying to absorb a certain phenomena about life. We can even call it a "miracle" depending on how we view it, but in essence it is quite profound. If you've read my blog in the past, especially if you've read some of my most earliest entries, then you know undoubtedly that I've experienced some loss in my life. However, my life has never been boring or absent of adventure, and I've had some truly wonderful experiences. 

One day I started to pay attention to and think about all the new people that I've met during the course of my life. Some have come and gone and have made their mark regardless of how short of stay they had and some were quite insignificant and believe me when I say that I wouldn't be sad if they never showed up again! 

Then there are those new people that have swooped into my life and have given me the feeling that I have been waiting for them all this time. These are the individuals that define the "new addditions that become lasting additions". There is no shared blood, but they are family in every sense of the word. And they have become some of the most important people in my life.

I find it very interesting how life can take people away from you, literally rip them away - as my father was. And then surprisingly just bring in new lasting additions.

If anything, this phenomena just reinforces the argument that we really are pawns in a greater game orchestrated by some superior being, or maybe it's just the dynamics of life. I'm not going to get into an existential debate here, we'll save that for another day.

For the time being, just stop and pay attention to the people that are in your life -- not the blood relatives -- but the ones that could very easily have chosen to walk out of your life or keep a distance. Pay attention to the ones that make or have made a positive decision to remain a part of you for the long run. Pay attention to the ones that make you feel like you were meant to meet and become lasting additions in each other's lives. Those are the ones that we can refer to as life's miracles.

:)