Journey of a Thousand Steps. *Dao*

The wind blows from a different direction now. The water starts to flow as spring sets in. Those of nature start to wake up from a long winter's sleep. Those reflecting in the past move into the present and future as well as the past. Time exists to none, but belongs to all.

A new journey after a winter freeze is approaching. A single step is made and the direction set for the journey to take place. A setting for a play to begin, as the actors take the stage. A new beginning with old knowledge can produce varied results as well as new knowledge to begin with.

The journey starts with a single step, and can end past the thousand that is planned for, is it the journey destination or the journey itself that is important? Can a journey lead back to a place in life where things were happier, where the feelings one had for another could be rekindled by someone new? Or by someone from the past?

Anxiously he waits to begin the journey, without realizing the journey has already begun. The steps have been taken and the journey seems so natural that the walk seems like nothing is happening.

One always has the past, the present rolling into the past, and the future becoming the present. The past building the the present, the present building the future. What one has is all things, but alas has nothing as a result. The past, present and future are yours to have, but once you have it, you realize you have nothing as well. A riddle here, a riddle there. One riddle referring to another, another riddle answering a future riddle, but a riddle is only a riddle for those that treat the riddle as a riddle.

This time I tell her I love her, this time I tell her she is my life, but this time I lead life the way I was meant to, though kindness, through humble dealings. But time is not presented to do this, and yet she knows how I feel and yet she knows who she is.

I have her and yet I do not have anyone. I love her and yet I can not hold her. Time comes and time goes. Why worry about what one has or does not have? When the journey ends, can you say I at least had this or that? Should one not be able to say, at least I helped someone out? At least someones life was improved by my existence?

To walk a thousand steps, is such a short journey, but at the end of a thousand steps one begins another journey with that single step.

A time to go, a time to come, is it not time to rest, and time to work? Work and rest, rest and work. Work and rest does not define a person, but the thoughts and actions of a person defines the rest. To be or not to be is Shakespeare's question, but regardless of the question the actions will answer the question.

Work hard or hardly work, the answer is how one views a situation. Views of one, is not a view of all. The view of all, can not be seen by the view of one. Take a step forward and one may end up going backwards, but going back can lead forward.

The journey presents itself with turns and twists as well. A right choice can lead to a dead end, where a wrong choice can lead back to a road previously detoured from. Whose to say what is wrong and what is right, but one should always walk the journey from the heart.

Love is here and love is there, but never seems to last as a stagnant thing, it changes, morphs and can even die, but live, die, or change love is around.

Time to end this writing but alas another will come, come and go one must always walk a journey.