Emma 2013-01-16 --
30 years old
Emma you are
in one of the very best and most fullfilling stages of life – The
initial period of preparation for life is finished – the starting
out chapter is also over. Emma - This is life!! As parents our
greatest hope is that you are getting the very best and the very
most out of it – That is what its is all about.
Years ago I heard a
story about a musician that was asked to play the violin for some of
his friends – The violin he was given wasn't as perfect as he
wished, and spent all his time tuning it and adjusting it, and
tuning it again – until his freinds left to go home – without ever
hearing the wonderful tunes they knew he was capable of playing.
Emma, sometimes we must be satisfied with less than perfect
circustances - to play our less than perfect tones – in the perfect
beauty and harmony of a wonderful and meaningsfull life.
Emma we are proud of you, and proud of
every single day of the 30 years in your life that have already been
moved into the great archive of 'yesterday'. These are the things
that have made you the person that you are today – and we are glad
for every one of them.
I have noticed an interesting and
perhaps significant aspect of life that I would like to share
with you.
Daily life is full of little things –
every day little things happen, and little choices are made – many of them
seem trivial and unimportant, and some of them are – Some of them do
seem to be more important and we try to use our whole capacity, and
all the wisdom we have, to wisely choose. Sometimes even then, the
choice that is made is mostly by guess. There are some other things seem to be
determined for us by chance and fate, or by forces outside our
control, and our only choice is to accept them willingly or
unwillingly. This is life and Emma I am quite sure that your 30
years has given you sufficient insight into life to know what I
mean!!
The paradox of life is that it often
isn't before many years have passed and we look back on the road we
have traveled, that we understand which choices were the defining
ones for the meaning and course of our lives, -- And then of
course, we can also understand the many choices and worries (and tears) that in all
reality, pretty much have completely lacked significance. |