What Continues Becomes
What we experience
does not simply disappear.
It moves through us.
A thought becomes understanding.
Understanding becomes awareness.
Awareness becomes choice.
A moment becomes memory.
A memory becomes meaning.
Meaning becomes part of who we are.
What continues
does not remain unchanged.
It grows.
It adapts.
It finds another shape.
Even the things we once thought were endings
can become beginnings
when carried forward differently.
We do not have to know
what something will become
while we are living it.
We only have to remain open
to what comes next.
Because life is not only
what happens to us.
It is also
what we continue with.
What continues becomes.
