In the end, we discover that, in life

Everything is new to us

Death, of course, is a new thing

But I am jumping over

Once we were born

Opened our eyes

Saw our mother’s eyes

Our father’s eyes

The entire family’s eyes

For the first time

(And it’s too late to repent about any of these later)

Anyhow, as I said, everything is a new thing

And so, from then onward, everything is new

Walking the first steps

Every step is a discovery

Every step toward tomorrow

When we were young

Everything was new

Things we didn’t ask for came to us

Things we did ask for, we never get

Still, they all were new things to us

Things that wear the spirit, things that lift it

We didn’t know what to do with them

Because we were new

Because those things were new

Feelings involved us

Learning smothered us

Failure frustrated us

Success confused us

We didn’t know what to do with success

We took it as a duty

And from then on, everything went uphill

Climbing adulthood up, as it were a mountain

A new thing is being an adult

It means responsibilities

Maturity

Finding work, being useful, or useless

Useful to others, useless to ourselves

A new thing that we didn’t know how to deal with

Finding a partner, a wife, a husband, a person

You label it. Your companion in life, your fellow friend

Your comrade, your best colleague

Someone whom you trust

(Beware, quicksand here)

Or just being alone

Which is not too bad after all

You may have replaced him/her/they with a pet

Or started a new thing

A new hobby, a new business, authoring a book

A self-help book that never helps anybody

Or you wrote a memoir, confessed to all, and then repented

Or you wrote a book about collecting new things

Gathering the old ones in a broken basket

And this is true because no matter how you look at it

Life is always about a new thing

Still, suddenly, you are old

Aging is a new thing, of course

Of course, you may try to delay it. No way

And so, the most challenging thing in this season

It’s to agree with the season

To which your soul may adjust

Not so your bones

Because, as I said, aging, as being born is, as growing up is

Is a new thing

So, life entire is a new thing

But by then, almost too late, we learn

That we must live in peace

With others and ourselves

That we should never hurry to live or live in a hurry

Too late in life, we learn

That good or bad, things will be there for us no matter what

And so, what we must do is take life with calm

And so, in the end, I come back to death

Another new thing we face in our life

Yet, death is a thing we must take it slowly

We should never hurry to die or die in a hurry

Death is another thing we must take with calm

Mulling over life while dying

So, finally, we can rest in peace.