A Birthday Reflection

A message for a friend on his 59th birthday

Birthdays

 

A time for reflection

 

Looking just to see what is there.

 

Looking inside

To see what we have become

Looking around

To see how we have touched our world

Looking again

To see how that same world

That Sweet Old World

Has touched us.

 

A time for looking back

To remember where we have come from

And of looking forward

To ponder where we might go next.

 

It is a time for reminiscing

About the people and events

Who have made those indelible marks

That have made us who we are today.

 

It is, perhaps, a appraisal of the pain

That prodded us to move on to happier places

Or an assessment of the joy

That buoyed us through choppy waters.

A glimpse at the tears

That washed our souls so we could see more clearly

A review of the laughter

That nourished us along the way

Or a perusal of the smiles

That lit the corridors of our journeys.

 

 

There are a multiplicity of factors

That make us who we are

Most days we do not even pause

To consider those things at all

Much less ponder and savor them

 

However, A Birthday is a time to do just that

To Ponder and appraise,

To glimpse, or gaze as time allows

To review and evaluate and assess

Even if just for a fleeting moment…

Here and there throughout the day.

Then file away to linger over longer

In days to come.

 

In true reflection lies the power

To move forward into an unknown future

Full of hope that everything we encounter there

Will be good

So good in fact that it is better

Than even the best of what we have know so far.

 

And so, on this Birthday of yours

The last year in an old decade

The stairway to another decade just a year away

 

I wish you peaceful, joyful, remembrances

I wish you hopeful, purposeful wishes and plans for tomorrow

 

May everything you have known until now

Become firmly planted stepping stones

To a higher purpose

To greater joy

To a life full of all the things you love

 

Reviews

[empty]

quite the wonderful write. Beautiful

[Shellie]

Excellent piece. There are a few grammatical errors, you need to give it a quick once over and that'll tidy it up but the piece itself is good enough for Hallmark. A fabulous present to receive and to give!