So many choices
So little time
All of our decisions
Are what make us who we are
We've all lived,
No matter how young are we
Nor how little we've seen
But none of that matters
If we cannot truly 'see'
...
To 'see' is not to look with the eyes,
Nor stare at odd, yet repetitive nothings
To 'see' is to look with your heart and soul
And know that there is more out there than we know
To know a thousand things too many
Yet be younger than that knowledge suggests
Or to be old enough to have seen things beyond that,
Yet be young enough in your soul to still laugh
To live, love, hurt and cry
To look at others with still a twinkling in your eye
To be satisfied with how you lived your life
Yet still wonder how different things could have been
But through all my ramblings
And thoughts of the when and now, if and then
There is a very simple message that I've been trying to tell
That to truly 'see' and have lived or to live your life
How it is meant or how you choose
Is to simply be
-Stephanie Ulmer, 9-16-12
