does life owe you?

There be those cycles we go through. Each and every one different, with their ups and downs, challenges and rewards. They be the cogs of our life. They remind us we are alive...well and breathing.
The important thing being never to under-estimate or forget every moment we live is beautiful, in its own right.
What would we do if our lives were smooth sailing. If we didn't know what it means to pine or long or desire or ache or cry...how can we then be thankful and grateful for the contentment we feel in a lovers arms, the kiss of a loved one, that accolade received for achievements worked for.
How could we appreciate a laugh sincere, a smile broad, brought about by something we may have said or done.
When sharing something special with another, how precious that share.
To be arrogant and nonchalant about our own birth, thinking life owes us only the best, no care to understand the value of life itself...be a tragedy.
To  understand the value of another persons life and respect it with a kind word, a greeting, a helping hand, the care to not insult or bully unnecessarily, to know to be patient even when frustration simmers...adds depth and value to our own being.
It be a moment of self-realisation when one can be introspective and grow when discovering ones own weaknesses or fears and more. Knowing the optimism of such moments and the richness in their challenge.
But. also knowing not to wallow in self pity and get lost in the winding corridors of questions without answers. There is only so much we will be blessed with in this life and why ask for more.
Those answers eluding us...in this life, one should not fret too much about  and forget to live.

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look carefully for there be an imprint
in the creation of each one of us a blueprint
like our fingerprints we be unique
the creation of each one of us, though, oblique.

be there no preconceived idea of why
to understand we may try
does it really matter if nothing be clear
for there be so much around that one holds dear.

we were given to sigh, to cry but then laugh and smile too
the quality of our life given to us to brew
yes destiny and fate may have a hand in much
the preference should be the best of everything to clutch.

so being innocent and naive, much inexperience
at times one may see it as an inconvenience
but isn't that half the pleasure of discovery
in the learning through many pitfalls, the recovery.

RB