When are We?

This has been a stressful week. Losing a co-worker and more importantly a friend has been difficult. It always happens, we tend to think about how precious life is when another moves on.

It is reflecting on this past week's events that the question of "When are We?" jumped into my head. See, I'm a huge fan of the show "Lost." This season, although I still can't follow it completely, the characters are faced with this same question. The island is moving through time. Each time, following a white flash of light, the questions they know they must find the answer to is, "When are we?" not "Where are we?" They know where they are, relatively speaking, but have little idea about where in time they have been moved to.

It is with this, flash of light, and the passing of a friend that I think about this question. Our lives are so busy...involved with family, friends, relationships, community, conflict, resolution, etc..that do we really stop to figure out where we are?

It takes someone walking into a flash of light for us to slow down and realize where we are, reassess where we are going, and see how we've been.

The bigger question then becomes, "How do we change?" How do we become people who don't take those around us for granted? People who realize the potential of their mind; Individuals who understand the positive force they are on the world? At what point do we stop doing the same thing expecting different results, and actually change the initial stages of the process?

When Monday breaks, "When are We?"

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