The Last Sapien | align your own stars

Align Your Own Stars | As all of our kids have fled home to live an independent life, being thousands of miles away from us is turning every call with them a precious time.

As they grow older our discussions are becoming more brilliant and of mutual empowerment, making me a proud dad, making us proud parents, but this is not what this post is about.

On a random chat said one "I am responsible for aligning my own stars". WOW this is so strong ( zero sarcasm, please). Most of our lives we blame things for taking too long as the stars did not align yet for them to happen. Sure, why take any responsibility if you can blame it on the stars . . . what a twist in the plot - what if we could make it so it will be easier for them' stars to align, maybe they are not aligned because we are not ready for them, why be passive if we can make things happen and even aligning our own stars.

This random chat turned a major philosophical milestone on the road to here and now. We talk a lot about owning our faith, about touching the pain and being fiercely honest about reality. These are the pavement materials that align the right stars for us. It is only when we are successful we believe that 'they did it' but sure enough the energies we put into the process are going a long way. Long enough to reach a star nevertheless a few of them to form just right.

In our modern materialistic life we often, intentionally or not, step on the grass of the little gardens of faith, there are so many hopes we flattened that have our foot print on the grounds above them, when they just tried to break way to light, we take shortcuts saving seconds and losing hours to bring these hopes again. We ignore the little signs of 'Please DO NOT Step on The Grass' agreeing with ourselves that it will grow back again, it's just grass, it grows as that is what grass is doing . . .

Am not trying to turn us all into the guarding angles of the urban greenery, but setting a wakeup call that there is a road to go, earning our destination by appreciating the efforts we made to reach it, by being thankful for the ones offered help and water along the way, seeing the little steps that brought us far. Yeah . . . far.