Guided by the light

While I was growing up, there was always this feeling that everything was old.

Every story had been told, every good music composed, every great story of overcoming challenges was already written. It seemed there was no space for creativity, for what is new, from this generation. As if this generation had nothing to bring to the world. We were merely reproductions of previous more interesting stories.

But there is something we keep forgetting. Time changes. It changes people, it changes the history, time changes everything and challenges everyone. And then there are the ties.

Everyone is born with ties. Ties from the place you were born, the family you were born in, the experiences that you've experience which you had no control over. All of these ties influence the way you see the world, the way you interact with it and at some point everyone has got to be faced with their ties.

It is important to identify them, to know them and then work to let them loose. For none of those ties define who you are and it is up to you to let them affect you, to let them weaken you, to allow them to say who you are, just because of the things you went through.

I came here looking for something that I didn't know exactly what it was. I'm still not sure if I do. But I did find a lot about my ties. The ones that keep me down, the ones that try to stop me.

And now I know that everything that happened, is happening and will happen will change me. It will teach me, and I shall be guided by the light.