Energy

 

I got this very deformed ash tray from my child, when they were young. I still have it, today.  I never smoked.  I have it, because my child made it for me.  When I see it, it has an energy that it departs to me in remembering them.

On the flip side, when I got divorced, I got rid of things that reminded me of my ex.  I didn't want to continue to see things that reminded me of this person that didn't love me and would remind me of false love and hurt that I got from them.

In both cases, they are not the person.  They are objects.  Yet, those objects carry forth the ability to evoke memories and establish ties with people that are not present.  They carry energy that they depart... good or bad.  We can try to ignore that fact.  We can say to ourselves.. no.. they are just objects.  But, that doesn't change their power to evoke those kinds of memories or enact emotional toll or comfort.

Sometimes, objects can give us courage. People will wear crosses or other things to do that.  In Dumbo it was a feather.  There wasn't power in the feather.  However, that didn't stop the feather from both giving courage and more, simply by using the feather as a channel of belief.

Life changes.  We must move on to new adventures, and nothing stays the same.  However, it is possible to make choices of which items to retain and which to avoid to accompany that new journey will reminders of the past.  Then, even when those people are not near (like my child), I can draw from that well of reminder of the times that they were young and with me.  Those times will never come again.  Even if they were close, it would be different.  However, those moments are etched in time and will forever be true, when those times were happening.  If someone, one day, invents a time machine... those moments would exist.  

Now, those times are not as rosy as we like to think in hindsight.  There were challenges.  There were bad people.  There were deceptions.  There were pains.  Thankfully, we don't have to experience all of that in our memories, which is why it is so important as you progress to choose thoughtfully which experiences you want to bring with you and to allow you to continue to influence who you choose to be.  Because, after all is said and done, the power of what we become rests largely in our hands to retain or remake, and create the future and the life that we want to have for ourselves and others.  So, choose wisely what energy you want to feed those days that lie ahead.