Life is sudden. Things happen so fast and so hard we don’t know what’s hit us until its come and gone. We regret so much, miss so many opportunities, open doors and chances come and go so swiftly that we can barely keep up. There are too many times when we question the way things are, rethink decisions and ponder our motives. ‘Why’ is a question so frequently asked and answered so rarely, the word has lost all meaning. Too many times we can only wonder, years slip through our fingers like sand and paths appear and disappear so quickly we quite often lose our way. What is your purpose? We could possibly be here – live - for absolutely no reason at all, only to sample and taste the experiences, losses and gains life has to offer. Perhaps your sole reason to breathe is to protect the life of someone else. Fulfil a promise, live a dream, maybe even create another life or go on to bigger and better things, faraway places, and meet exotic and extraordinary people. Maybe you are someone’s reason to live. Maybe…the entire reason, every little action, every word said at a specific time in a specific place was meant to lead up to a certain event. You stopped for exactly nine seconds waiting for the lights to change, spent exactly five seconds wondering if you should go back and get your sunnies and exactly three seconds looking left and right to cross the road so that at the exact right moment you could push a stranger out of the way of a speeding car. Were you meant to lose your life in doing so? Were you meant to make it out of the way in time? Nothing is really definitive. We can ask that question again and again; why? Why did I die for a stranger? Why did I live when it was obvious I should have died? We can repeat ourselves till the end of our time and still get no answer. Maybe there never will be, never was an answer to the questions we ask. What do I think? Yes, we can lose ourselves in the swift currents of time; get separated from the path of our purpose. Yes, we might not always have the answer and maybe never even find it. But sometimes it’s the questions that matter more; maybe it’s the times you missed instead of having, that are more important. Sometimes those lost opportunities make their way back to the road and you get another chance, and when that time comes, it’s up to you to answer the question; to take it or not? -anonymous-

Makes you think...and puts me in a good drawing mood.