I Want to Remember

When you turn around and you look where you have walked along, it is dark and yet you are curious to wander around hoping that you might find something. And when you trip over something, you fall and it is so dark that you cannot find your way out. Then someone passes by you, they lend you a hand and you get up on your feet. As you walk along the path with this stranger, things seem so much more brighter ahead, and the things passed remain in the past.

Remember an old home scene of your childhood when your precious father and loving mother tended to you. In times of joy, the shedding of tears, when you wanted to ride your first bicycle, or when you wanted to eat your favourite foods, and even in times of sadness and sickness; they were there for you. Remember the days when you first started school, and she would accompany you for those first moments of an unfamiliar environment, away from home, separated from her presence. Remember those years of struggling with childhood and adulthood, when what everybody thought seemed to matter and the world just seemed so much more bigger. But it didn't matter because if you knew she said everything was going to be alright, that was all that mattered. Remember when you took your first journey alone, you arrived at an foreign yet familiar place where so many more memories were made. In times of singing, prayers being made, of quiet moments, and joyous events; they were there for you, moreover He was there too.

If you want to seek a treasure along the path that you have taken, it can be a dangerous journey to turn back. And when you want to remember things of the past, there can be dark corners that may still haunt you when you visit those old memories. But it will be worth it when you find that treasure because it will last you a long time for your journey ahead. As you ponder, your hope grows fonder, and precious memories will flood your soul. Though there is a more precious treasure here on this earth, and it lies not in the past.