Life is a never-ending journey, from one point to another, and from one moment to the next. We go through joy, worries and problems, good and bad times, and sometimes we even hold on to the illusion that we can stay in one place, trying to preserve emotions or memories.
But they passed long ago and remain only as a pale shadow somewhere deep inside us.
Even when it feels like we are walking in circles, we never truly return to the same place. Neither time nor we ourselves are the same. We change inside and out, for better or for worse. Our ideas and perceptions do not remain the same, nor do the things we like or hate, accept or understand.
The same is true of our friends. They come and go.
Everyone follows their own direction, from some beginning toward some end, trying to reach what seems to be a certain goal, without noticing the time simply passing them by. We try to seize the moment and chase our goals, while in fact we are only standing on the sidelines, watching our own lives.
So caught up in everyday life, we put aside the things that truly matter. We leave them for later, but that later never seems to come. We think it is only for a while, but they become buried under other things we believe are important. And so we carry on, scattered from one thing to another, day after day, without realizing what we are truly losing.
And what we lose is our essence, our very selves, stripped of our identity within the greater whole and serving someone else’s interests.
But we keep moving forward, wherever our dreams and decisions take us. Even if our path is already set, how we walk it is still a choice, and that choice depends only on us.
Whether we walk with honor and dignity, or with submission and indifference.
As far as the direction we take, up or down the stairway, is entirely our own decision.
© 2026 Nikola Vasilev