A reflection on the years past and towards the years to be.
Part of what I like to do is looking for alternate (positive) meanings within things and using metaphors.
This time its the song “The Last Goodbye” from the movie “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”. This song was composed by Billy Boyd, and who also sings it and beautifully too. Now, Lord of the Rings fans will know Billy Boyd to be the one playing the character of “Pippin”.
Scroll down below to listen to this song and view the full lyrics.
I connect with the lyrics of this song very much .. as what I take from it is a journey of transition.
To me, my journey of change over the years from a hard set personality with blinkers on, the “Accountant”, moving onto a continuously new and evolving horizon. I find myself now walking and discovering more and more the spiritual path with realizations of new levels of consciousness, all this towards the role I am to play in helping others in their very own journeys.
This song for me sheds light on the aspect of “the ME who can be” versus the aspects of “the ME that no longer serves my higher purpose”.
For something new to grow and flourish, at times somethings must die, somethings must end !
Connecting With The Song
And now, as 2017 ends, we reflect back on the trials, the tribulations, the journeys and paths traveled in 2017 (and prior), quoting the lyrics of this song, I now say to the ME of old …
To these memories I will hold
With your blessing I will go
To turn at last to paths that lead home
Many places I have been
Many sorrows I have seen
But I don’t regret
Nor will I forget
All who took that road with me
And as 2018 looms and as the trials of 2017 end …
Night is now falling
So ends this day
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
And as I flow into 2018, I welcome, brace myself and look forward to the new trials, the new adventures, for …
The road is now calling
And I must away
Over hill and under tree
Through lands where never light has shone
By silver streams that run down to the sea
The Pursuit Of Happiness
For many, we wish so much to be in control of our destiny, we tend to take comfort in the predictive, in being predictive. We cling on to the hope, the ideal of happiness .. to the extent that we can end up becoming quite unhappy in the pursuit of happiness. Ironic huh ?
Consider that the happiness, the knowing that we seek can sometimes instead arise within our ability to let go of the need for it.
Consider that this can entail one walking within the dark, not knowing, unaware, feeling lost. But when one is able to do so and embrace this concept with trust and faith re the path ahead, the knowing and happiness have a tendency of presenting itself, disguised though at times, but know that it exists therein.
Consider the concept of …. that when we no longer view happiness as the end state / the destination … and instead embrace the ideal that we can discover it within the journey walked, within the darkness, within the trials and the tribulations
Consider that the “Happiness” is in fact the “Journey”
And though where the road then takes me,
I cannot tell ….
Consider too, for its within the darkest depths of the fears we hold onto, that we can in turn discover the light, the beauty and the strength that represents the most precious aspects of us and potentially the launch pad for our further greatness.
With the onset of the New Year, symbolically ….
I turn at last to paths that lead HOME
For it is here in walking this journey, walking within the not knowing, that …
I can fully serve the purpose I was put here for …
I now embrace, live and sit in harmony with my fears and that which is presented here forth …
The journey HOME .. where I further discover my own truth. Accepting who I am and who I’m not and being able to speak and walk my truth within my true authenticity …
Live my authenticity in the absence of the collective fears of past patterning and conditioning that have plagued most of us …
Hence to the “ME of old” ….. I bid you a fond farewell. For the road is now calling and I must away.
So !! What is your story ?
What road beckons you forth, what goodbyes do you have to say, what loads must you drop to travel through lands where never light has shone ? I bid you blessings on your journey.
Video and Song credits;
Korital Lyrics : For the You Tube clip with the lyrics
Copyright by WaterTower Music
“The Last Goodbye” (Billy Boyd)
I saw the light fade from the sky
On the wind I heard a sigh
As the snowflakes cover
My fallen brothers
I will say this last goodbye
Night is now falling
So ends this day
The road is now calling
And I must away
Over hill and under tree
Through lands where never light has shone
By silver streams that run down to the sea
Under cloud, beneath the stars
Over snow and winter’s morn
I turn at last to paths that lead home
And though where the road then takes me,
I cannot tell
We came all this way
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
Many places I have been
Many sorrows I have seen
But I don’t regret
Nor will I forget
All who took that road with me
Night is now falling
So ends this day
The road is now calling
And I must away
Over hill, and under tree
Through lands where never light has shone
By silver streams that run down to the sea
To these memories I will hold
With your blessing I will go
To turn at last to paths that lead home
And though where the road then takes me,
I cannot tell
We came all this way
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
I bid you all a very fond farewell
