Soulshine

“I guess it's over now I think we've seen the end When our common dream Faltered in-the-betweens.” Cause and Effect, It’s Over Now It seems like we are all too busy today for significant relationships; and so it’s no wonder when we receive a reality-slap telling us that a relationship—even one we have claimed to truly value-- has “faltered in the betweens.” Relationships are strained by busy-ness. And no relationship can sustain itself if the two people involved aren’t making time for each other. Distance could be the result of at least two factors: 1)       Maybe we have erected a wall between us because our original common dream has faltered and fallen apart. I think most every serious relationship begins with a common dream that draws us together. But as people grow and change with the tick-tock of time, their dreams can also twist, change and evolve into something that no longer resembles the common dream that formed the foundation ...

“I learned through weaknesses And through the web of your lies That everyday I live Another piece of me dies And in the black and white I found a need to move on To find a road of gold A throne to live upon.” Cause & Effect, It’s Over Now (1994) Sometimes we have to be careful when we feel the need to find that “road of gold.” Is it really a “need” to grow more fully into who we are, or is it a “compulsion” to escape from life—and primarily to escape from ourselves? I often feel trapped or stuck. Suddenly I’m not happy with my career, with the work I’m doing, with my surroundings or with the people in my life. I long to trash it all, to pick myself up and to travel down that road of gold. I tell myself I could flourish so much more in California ; in Los Angeles , San Diego or San Francisco . I’d be free—free to be me, free to enjoy life, free to be more fully creative. And that may all be true. Or it may be that I am simply wanting to escape fro...