A ponder that surely in some ways sits in the belly's of just about everyone at one time or another. Everyone has the innate desire for self-preservation, self-procreation and for a sure sense of self-determined destiny, agreed? Well, there are as many varying opinions on the designs to life and to the scheme of things as there are to the boundless ocean of the grand destinies of each of us all in humankind. Some views remain bright and indignantly positive while some others adamantly coexist with dark hallways of the mind, as sturdy as all the vastness of space and as firm as the seemingly dedicated aspects of the oceans of time itself. None of this however approaches the onward marching sense of a certain degree of personal obsolescence that takes its turn in thoughts and through actions day by day and through situation by situation.
All of these factors make up the chemical mix of thoughts and beliefs that have dedicated the determined amount of enlightenment one chooses to engage as a means to their own eternity, as miniscule as many still seem to believe all of this to be in their lives. It surely is not, yet in the end, individual determined ways always do prevail to the one. Cultural and even societal religious trends define much of this theme not as much in spiritual ways, but in what is still viewed as grounded and firm reason to what is viewed as reviewed fact, instead of what is viewed at the core of the self as ones faith in whatever one chooses as a means to a continuing satisfying spiritual path in life.
Very old Pagan paths that accorded an inclusive understanding of these enlightened ways are still frequently declared as obsolete and outmoded ways of thought by many in the world, who would rather witness a common alignment to more culturally recognized modes of belief. Paganism has for a great amount of time in the current age of society been considered a fringe belief, while those within it consider it a mainstay to the very spiritual patterns they craft along the roads of their lives.
Now, respectively admitted to every cause of religiously spiritual, or more integrative spiritual belief, the very same case can easily be stated for any and virtually all of the many belief systems of the world that allot the creativeness of life to the hand of some divine intervention or at the least to the pattern to some available guidance in peoples lives. Lest it be that there has always been a vast span of all of the many societies of the world who allot their own creativeness to a grander force in the universe. Just the color differs between the many divergent beliefs, hardly the core of the need and the driving force for something that gives meaning to all of the stuff that life is made of. The largest question remains; how does one color the belief systems that affect and create and re-create their own life?
As the path of life moves onward, "change" is the one theme that stays with everyone like the shadow of the specter that's always approaching tomorrow, up and until that moment when the tomorrows are no more in a physical sense. But what is it that drives those choices for experience, for betterment, for a true inner and very real sense of personal enlightenment that results from all of those experiences?
Some claim that it’s from an emerging awakening process finally touching that inner soulful part of themselves. Others come to realize that through all of their mistakes and their successes come the endearing and the enduring aspects to a growing enlightenment that emerges regardless of all of the frail failures and dependencies that couple the physical experiences of life to the spiritual, belief system aside. It’s not as much in the belief system as much in the way that the individual moves through that particular belief system and to the path they choose to set their feet upon as a result of this self awareness.
Ponder if you would that it is somewhere between these where we all exist, and it’s also between these two variable vicissitudes of existence where we all inevitably draw our own meanings to life and thus, some concrete definitions of our own successes and to what we inevitably choose to leave behind us as testament to our lives.
Obsolescence of the spirit is the one factor that caters to the ending stages of life's creativity and it is hardly constrictive according to age or by system of belief. It’s this that quells the creativity of life and in a very real way it caters to the negative, to the chaotic and to the forces of anger and hatred that all would rather throw asunder the hopes and the dreams of all people throughout all faiths. It remains separatist goals of thought in many systems of belief to observe as a greater force, the obsolescence of the spirit instead of observing a growing level of the enlightenment of the self.
Regardless of the meandering of such thinking, there are a growing number of souls, Pagan and other who are now choosing to recognize that life and spirit hardly stop and languish with the page or the psalm of any set grand scheme of belief. It is this choice for an ongoing sense of ones own enlightenment where one chooses their own destiny and sets the foot firmly upon the path to their own future.
It is this choice to recognize the awareness of a state of a growing enlightenment of that eventually static state of the obsolescence to life that we all will eventually face in one way or another. Would it be that all would choose their own growing stage of enlightenment in existence, though various separatist beliefs of thought might believe that the other is the eternal inevitability?
In the end regardless even of ones own alignments of present thought to one school of belief or another, people choose their own courses to their own self-declared destiny’s and there is little that can ever push this process along except the desire of the one to open up to the reality of their heart and to the yearning of their own spirit to the stage that lies ahead for us all.
Perhaps the themes that define a personal enlightenment best intertwined into that old saying that says that:
"We all grow into our own shoes, at the right time, and in the right way. The color and make of the shoe is your own choice, but make it one that endures best for you!"
