What an interesting year it has been, and what an interesting year it will, no doubt, continue to be.
I’ve met many people in the past year, some of whom are famous, some of whom are less so, but every single one unique, interesting, and educational in a hundred different ways that have transformed my life in ways that up until now I still can’t comprehensively elucidate. New roles have come in as well, as have new responsibilities, including the responsibility of managing the AUAM’s LinkedIn page, and to continue onwards with opportunities to meet many different people, often of tremendous qualification and bearing. Continuing onwards with a trend that somehow began last year and has continued in ever more improbable scenarios along the way.
A funny thing that has changed is that somehow, my soul’s resonance doesn’t echo so much with the need for financial gain anymore. It’s hard to say that I don’t need money, but it’s just that that is not my primary motivation.
I think that there was a time when, in the past, having more and more money was really the goal. And I’m not saying that it isn’t needed.
But somewhere along the line, I think that this should change.
It moved away from having every dollar and cent and having every inch of capacity towards being able somehow to make a difference in different ways towards being able to fund my goals and aspirations, ambitions one after another.
I’m not a greedy person, I don’t think. Not a particularly flashy one either.
I don’t have grand aspirations of having the most gigantic house in this world or the most incredible car.
Rather, I think I’d rather just live a simple life with the capacity to get most things that I do want with the ability to travel, and various other things of that nature, and to enjoy the small gifts that life has such as friendship, new experiences, and many other things along the way.
I think that there comes a point in each person’s life when they begin reflecting on these things, and they realize that many things in this world are not either-or, though.
Sometimes opportunities come into your life, like lightning, once certain conditions have been met.
Maybe your mind has reached a certain level that you’d not anticipated before.
Maybe you, as a person, have become someone capable of delivering certain kinds of experiences, value, or outcomes into the world that you should be compensated for it.
Whatever the case may be, at least for me, it’s still a time of patent reflection and many new joys. Some of which I hadn’t considered at an earlier point, but that are coming into my life one after another.
The friendships that I thought I’d abandoned.
The learning that I thought I would never have.
The opportunity to meet my heroes and to greet them as peers.
The expansion of horizons that hitherto were very shallow.
The universe seems to have blessed me in many ways that I had not taken account of before and as such, it has given me certain revelations that are unique to me and previously, in my mind, unprecedented.
I take each as a new seed, upon the soil that is my consciousness.
What flowers and fruit these seeds shall yield, nobody shall know.
But whatever it is, I know that if I look at the evidence of the past, I have seen good from this universe – and I have no rational reason to say or believe that it will not be so again in the future.
– V
