==spring great perhaps

 

“Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn’t exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.”

 

 

John Green, Looking for Alaska

 

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I seek a great perhaps.”

 

 

When I saw this image I knew I had my ‘welcome to spring’ thought.

 

 

Spring is always about new beginnings. I call it the harbinger of the narrative of hope.

 

But it is also about new ‘perhaps.’

 

 

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And while I do like positive thinking I love it with a good dose of pragmatism. I do so because Life has a nasty habit of getting in the way of “dreams” and “milestones” and “my plans.”

 

Perhaps’ sounds so … well … underwhelming … certainly not conclusively positive. And not really that inspiring.

 

And, yet, it is a reality. It is representative of the search, the beginnings … and the inexactness Life offers in terms of destinations, outcomes and successes.

 

Francois Rabelais was a poet whose last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” I believe the ‘Great Perhaps’ is a Life truth wherein life is about living “maybes” and seeking the ‘great perhaps’ that exist in everyone’s life. The ‘perhaps’ of attaining a more-than-minor Life in some way.

 

Spring sometimes permits us to face our feelings, thoughts, doubts, dreams and fears with a fresh eye. An eye that views ‘perhaps’ a little more positively.

 

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Perhaps we will find something better.

 

Perhaps we will be better.

 

Perhaps we will do better.

 

Better looks fresher and … well … perhaps a little more doable.

Better is perhaps doable.

Better things like:

 

 

I want to go to seek a great perhaps of what I know can be, and is, better.

 

I want to know what a better world really looks like.

 

I want to see the beauty that can be found in what is better in everyone.

 

I want to be amazed by the ‘perhaps & maybes’ in the world.

 

This all may sound silly in a world in which everyone sounds disappointed in maybes, certainly in seeking maybes, because they want ‘for sures’ and ‘actualization of things they chose to seek.’

 

I must be different because I find ‘perhaps’ optimistic & hopeful.

I find ‘maybes’ the foundation of possibilities.

 

 

Look.

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I can sum up my life in Frost’s “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world” but I believe I can sum up my attitude in ‘the great perhaps.’

 

It is hopeful and, yet, colored with the rich & royal hues of ‘maybes.’

 

 

Anyway.

 

Spring is upon us.

 

Spring IS the great perhaps.

 

Perhaps it will bring the fresh perspective that dreams & hopes are built upon. Spring is the end of something and the beginning of something else. And in its waking moments Perhaps awakens and yawns and slips from between the sheets into the new day.

 

Life is not finite in its choices, paths and destinations and it certainly doesn’t always sort itself out.

 

It is full of triumphs & tragedies.

 

It is a labyrinth of perhaps.

perhaps headerLife is one big ‘perhaps.’

 

In other words … Spring reaches out and reminds us each year of the ‘great perhaps’ available to any & all who choose to embrace the ‘maybes’ in Life.

 

And by embracing the maybes … well … maybe you stumble across a more-than-minor Life.

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