The Feel of the Snap of a Rubber Band...

Why is it when you are snapped by a rubber band you are often surprised? You fiddle with it, you stretch it, you play with it, wrap it around your finger and then…the grip slips so slightly and the band goes snap and a jolt of feeling goes through you and surprises you.

Isn’t life the same way? I had a long conversation with a dear person and experienced the proverbial snap of the rubber band as internally I realized how the best things in life are right before your eyes. Does the realization come from lack of focus? Possibly mis perceptions? Why does one chase one prize all the while not looking around for the things that bring happiness. When you really talk to someone for the first time and get a glimpse into their inner workings one can become astonished by what you find.

The scales of eternity flow back and forth and the good found may bring realizations akin to the snap of a rubber band. The reality check of time wasted, things unseen, pursuits never followed, and a re-shuffling of the goals one may have sought. The pain of realization can be great.

But the scales are also fair and will tilt back to those who seek what is good in nature and the folly of ones ways can be repaired if the lessons of the snap are realized. Is there such thing as fate, is there such thing a destiny? Or is life just a series of snaps into reality? I hope to find a way to learn from my snap and to seek what I should have sought and to see what I should have seen.