Thinking Out Loud: Do You Dance in the Sunshine?

Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Boris Pasternack’s  work, Dr. Zhivago.

“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

Note: I witness it every day. I see people, age doesn’t matter, who go through the motions of existing. Each day has a repetitiveness about it for them. I also see people, age doesn’t matter, who engage with life. They wrestle with doubts, daemons, and dark struggles. They dance in the sunshine, sing in the rain, and choose to grow and evolve embracing each step as a new adventure. Which are you?