How to be a destination

Hey, you, doing that thing you are doing! Do you remember a moment ago, when you were doing a different thing? Pausing briefly for a breath, perhaps, or walking through an already-open door? Or being born, and seeing a human face for the first time?

How a moment stretches! How wide the gap can distend, separating who you were from who you just became!

And how noble and extraordinary of you to leap across that gap, to break through the past and into the present — willful, pugnacious, driving on against all odds, to become, brilliantly, yourself!