No Safe Distance:

I think that we're all waiting to be transformed into something else but in fact the luckiest of us are the people who realize that this is it. And that to honor our dreams and to honor our loved ones and to honor our rituals and our lives is precisely what literature is endlessly trying to teach us. That this is the moment. And that we are happy and immortal only insofar as we know and notice that.

~Allan Gurganus, interview in Naomi Epel's Writers Dreaming

"Waiting to be transformed..."

It's a profound moment when one realizes that this is it, you are it, who you are, now. There is not a better you that you will become just around the next corner. No magic moment or seminal day when you will be THAT person, the one you feel you could be, will be, "once" and "if only."

This isn't to say that you won't evolve because you have to. Or maybe you don't "have to", but you will anyway. And you may evolve because of what you gain, but more likely it will be because of what you lose.

And this has nothing to do with whether you believe there is a Heaven or not. It has to do with how you embrace what you have and who you are here and now. Being accountable to today. Being honest and courageous enough to face the full truth that this, right now, this person you are, is who you have become.

There is tremendous grace in that. Terrifying and tremendous grace.

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