Ten Years Ago

Ten years ago, I had a different mind, yet the same heart.

I knew not where I would be or that I would end up on the other side of the country to once again reunite with the four seasons.

I am always in awe of nature that too has not changed only intensified.

My love of music in concert has only grown stronger, like the pull to sea, it is where I feel the most at home.

Where all walks of life and ages come to be unabashedly free.

I am more open to the ways of the world and now I have included me.

I think I understood empathy naturally for others even too much so, yet this was the year I extended it to me.

I only felt sympathy for myself, and that we know is never good to feel sorry for yourself or anyone else because it is an indication detachment or unhealthy coping with challenge.