I taught myself to play the piano when I was a teenager. But the thing is, I hated playing the same thing. I found it sort of humiliating to play the same song over and over.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what\u2019s supposed to make you better though.<\/p>\n
I got older, and when I got to live on my own and make my own choices the sameness of my teenage life was shifted. I could go! I could do! I could try and experiment and see what was going on in the world.<\/p>\n
It turns out life is full of sameness. Even when I might wish to have new experiences every day, so much of my day is exactly the same. Some breakfast most days. Some routine.<\/p>\n
I put on the same shoes. I drive the same route.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I think I have won the game of life, because I have tried things and decided on the perfect choice for me. THESE shoes. THIS car.<\/p>\n
This career. These friends. This favorite restaurant and THIS dessert.<\/p>\n
I know what I like.<\/p>\n
And as soon as I think that, I think again. Maybe there is more that I haven\u2019t tried that would change my life and make my smug choices all wrong.<\/p>\n
Have I been living a fool\u2019s paradise?<\/p>\n
What I need is something new! That NEW shampoo. That new album or vacation.<\/p>\n
Maybe what I really want is just a lot more new.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Easter season. It\u2019s spring. I\u2019m listening to stories of resurrection.<\/p>\n
New life.<\/p>\n
And I must be born again.<\/p>\n
Must I? Didn\u2019t I get a few things right when I was born the first time?<\/p>\n
Except that tempting lure of what else I haven\u2019t tried.<\/p>\n
I am grateful that spring comes every year to remind me to be born anew.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it births a new version of exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n
Brand new and different don\u2019t have to be the same thing.<\/p>\n
There are two joys, one in something entirely new. And also in seeing new what you have loved for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I taught myself to play the piano when I was a teenager. But the thing is, I hated playing the same thing. I found it sort of humiliating to play the same song over and over. That\u2019s what\u2019s supposed to … Continue reading