Blurred.

Perhaps the world is round, 

so that a timeline, like a numberline 

could fit itself around it. 

So that the beginnings and the endings of things 

could become indistinguishable within one planet. 

Reaching any and all places. 

Time ticking in every second. 

Then what is one to think going into something new?

Does one simply drag the same attitudes and memories of the previous

with them as they move onward? 

Or does one let go of everything entirely, never looking back. 

I suppose if you brought everything back with you, 

there would be nothing new about any of it. 

In that scenario there's no specialness,

and simply no room for engenuity at all. 

And yet if you leave all of it in the past,

there's all too much room for vulnerable thinking. 

On the one hand, you have your mind, 

which is already overwhelmed with the thought of 

all of the overwhelming things that it has yet to endure,

and on the other you have your heart, 

that doesn't really know what to feel at all because nothing's happened,

yet you know that when it does it'll be one giant disaster. 

Great. 

So before anything even starts,

you've already mapped out all of the possible oil spills bound to blacken you out. 

It's a race down your river and while you've wasted so much of your time,

the gun's already gone off and you're drowning in

all of the oil spills that you already predicted. 

And if you actually make it to the end,

you contemplated how you'll feel by the end of it. 

No doubt some of that old oil will splash you, leaving you a bit gray. 

But if that happens so often, 

how will you be at the end of your life completely?

You claw your way into the supposed "ideal" that is old age,

and you claw a bit more as your body breaks down and you are eaten alive by illness. 

There. 

That're your life story. 

A myriad of starts, odds and ends. 

But this is a small start. 

Perhaps one should take a small bit of the past in with them, 

and leave an equally small part back. 

This is how you take the small steps into your small life as it grows into something more. 

Human Dignity + Compassion = Peace.