First an update. My daughter is stable. She had to go to the hospital for an emergency blood transfusion. Thank you for the well wishes Elle Starling @ https://fabfitcreative.wordpress.com/ . The doctors took good care of her and now it will be figuring out why she needed that transfusion.

One of the reasons I shared Super Junior, besides the obvious reason that I enjoy their music, is that they are one of the longest performing groups in KPop. They started back in 2005. In KPop that’s an eternity. Granted they’ve had member changes and had to do their required service time in the Korean military/social service. But these gentlemen are still doing what they love. The oldest member is Kim Hee-chul ( 김희철 ) at 42. Doing what we love is more important than most of us realize.

I don’t really look back very often, but I was thinking about this today because I am sorting through old papers. Is there something I would go back and change? No. I wouldn’t have the good things in my life that I have if I did. I might have been a millionaire. I might have been a broken soul subsisting on my most recent drink. The path I am on has led me to this moment with all the good and bad along the way. It’s exactly how it should be. Although I could wish that I was a quicker student. I might not have had to retake some life lessons as many times as I did, but then again, you never know.

I have never regretted doing anything I loved. There’s some minor regrets over the times when I chose what I thought was the smart thing over what I really wanted to do.The outcome ended the same because inevitably I did what I loved anyway, The smart thing was not smart for me. Other people can be very good at telling us what they think is the smart thing for us. Most don’t mean any harm and are merely projecting their own experiences on us. But, if it isn’t something that is for us it will eventually fall away.

There is always a way to follow what you love. There are hurdles, setbacks, and challenges along every path. Just because we’re pursuing something we love, it doesn’t mean that the challenges are there because we’re not meant to do that work. There will always be someone telling us that what we are working towards is stupid. That our idea will never work, or if it’s already being done successfully, that the field is full. This can really hurt and it’s a good reason to not share our thoughts with people we know are already prone to these type of responses. We are amply supplied with insecurity and doubt without any outside donations.

I can’t imagine that the members of Super Junior had any idea that 2 decades later they would be releasing another album. We don’t have any idea of what 20 years from now will look like in our lives. We also don’t have any idea what 20 years from now will look like in anyone else’s life.

Years ago I learned a deep lesson. We can be done with this life at any moment. I took that lesson and went the wrong way with it for a very long time. I tried to keep every moment, preserving it in my memory but my memories were like pressed flowers. They were a semblance of the living. The spark of life was gone and without the colors and the scents they became faded and sad. Recently, I’ve learned to let my memories go like dandelion seeds on the wind that can spread and sprout in a distant soil. Enjoy the moment, share the joy with the breeze if that’s all we have. Do what we love because that’s the point of it all. The more we do in love and with love, the more love we share with the world.